Theatre Archives : Alexandra Spring

Ben Elton: there is no wisdom involved in being massively wealthy

Alexandra Spring — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 08:25:44 +0000

As a new production of We Will Rock You opens in Sydney, the writer and director sounds off about Donald Trump and the death of live music

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Cate the Great: Cate Blanchett on Australia, elf ears and doing the school run

Alexandra Spring — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 08:08:51 +0000

When Cate Blanchett picked up her second Oscar last March for her coruscating performance as the fallen Wall Street wife in Blue Jasmine, she deservedly joined that small and august club of the world’s best actresses. But there is more to her than a rare professional skill: not least her beauty, which in person is […]

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On Fire: Joanna Murray Smith

Alexandra Spring — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:59:51 +0000

This is, in Joanna Murray Smith’s own words, “a crackerjack year”. Back in Melbourne after the opening of her 2011 play The Gift at Los Angeles’s Geffen Playhouse, the playwright will have a play staged in almost every state this year. “Writers are never happy,” she says with a laugh. “Instead of going: ‘Isn’t it […]

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Queen of All: Robyn Nevin

Alexandra Spring — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:41:23 +0000

“I haven’t been this excited in a long time,” says Robyn Nevin. “I’ve been pleased and happy and looking forward, but I haven’t actually been this stirred by the notion of acting as I am with this.” The iconic actor is contemplating her upcoming lead role as Queen Lear for Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC). Her […]

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High Drama: Emily Barclay

Alexandra Spring — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:33:56 +0000

Part scrubber, part goddess, part imp.” Geoffrey Rush is describing actress Emily Barclay. “A bit goth, a bit Minnie Mouse – a true player.” She doesn’t really look like either today, when we meet at Sydney’s Shangri-La hotel. She doesn’t look like the terrifying Katrina in Suburban Mayhem, the petulant teenager in Belvoir’s Gethsemane, the […]

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Everyone Loves Lally Katz

Alexandra Spring — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:50:30 +0000

Lally Katz is one of those people to whom things just happen. Like the time she was walking through Sydney late at night, contemplating a new play about Judaism, and she was approached by someone she thought was a rabbi. He told her he had something to tell her. “I thought: ‘Of course you need […]

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Lets Hear it for the Boy: Joel Edgerton

Alexandra Spring — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:09:12 +0000

He certainly looks the part. When Joel Edgerton walks into the Vogue studio, a ripple runs through the air. Just back from Pittsburgh, where he’s been shooting the martial arts action movie Warrior with Nick Nolte, the actor is in top form to play red-blooded brute Stanley Kowalski opposite Cate Blanchett’s Blanche DuBois in Sydney […]

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