Theatre News and Reviews
TimeOut November 13, 2018 Hugo Weaving, Zahra Newman and Pamela Rabe star in Tennessee Williams’ classic for Sydney Theatre Company This is Sydney Theatre Company’s big classic for the year, and it’s being directed by the company’s artistic director, Kip Williams, who won a Helpmann Award the last time he directed a Tennessee Williams play […]
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Hugo Weaving, Pamela Rabe and Zahra Newman will star in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Kip Williams. More details on the official website here.
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Limelight September 6, 2018 Power and family are in the spotlight in STC’s 2019, Kip Williams explains, with a swathe of new plays alongside modern classics like Lord of the Flies, Così and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Sydney Theatre Company has announced its 2019 season, with a swathe of new plays – including the […]
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Check out all the great reviews for STC’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui! The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui | Sydney Theatre Company – Australian Stage (01apr18) Hugo Weaving playing Arturo Ui is undeniably a genius bit of theatrical alchemy […] With such a talented ensemble cast around him, it almost seems redundant to say that Hugo Weavingdelivers […]
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Australian Stage Jack Teiwes April 1, 2018 Left – Colin Moody and Hugo Weaving. Cover – Hugo Weaving (background) and Monica Sayers. Photos – Daniel Boud Perhaps the most anticipated production on STC’s slate this year, and seemingly their most heavily-advertised ever, Hugo Weaving playing Arturo Ui is undeniably a genius bit of theatrical alchemy. Those who have followed […]
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The Daily Telegraph March 31, 2018 WHAT: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui WHERE: Roslyn Packer Theatre WHEN: until April 28 RATING: FOUR AND A HALF STARS THE vast stage is a hive of activity as the audience take their seats. The actors wander around, stretching, having hair and make-up done, and getting into character. Camera operators are also […]
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The Daily Telegraph Elizabeth Fortescue March 29, 2018 In the STC’s new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui, onstage filming brings the actors so close you can pretty much see the pores of their skin. In the case of Hugo Weaving, you can watch the sweat pouring off him in streams, […]
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Limelight Magazine Angus McPherson March 28, 2018 Hugo Weaving’s brilliant Arturo Ui is terrifying because he’s familiar. Bertolt Brecht wrote The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in 1941 as a parable of Hitler’s rise to power, setting the action in 1930s Depression-era Chicago – and drawing heavily on films that depicted that time – with Ui and his […]
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SMH Joyce Morgan March 28, 2018 ★★★★½ We get the leaders we deserve. So when politicians are bent, businessmen venal and low-life criminals murderous, the conditions are ripe for the rise of the lowest life of all. Hugo Weaving rages as the chilling despot Arturo Ui. Photo: Daniel Boud Exiled German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote his […]
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