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Gemma Bishop
Gemma Bishop is an actress and singer-songwriter from Australia. Career Bishop's acting career began at the age of eight with a guest appearance on ''The Flying Doctors''. Since then, she has appeared in regular roles as Sophie Bennett in ''Short Cuts'' (2002), Kat Riley in ''Neighbours'' (2003) and Casey Simmons in ''The Cheerleader Diaries'' (2013). She has had guest roles in ''The Flying Doctors'', ''Law of the Land'', ''Good Guys, Bad Guys'', ''Blue Heelers'', '' State Coroner'', ''Halifax f.p.'', ''City Homicide'', ''Matchmakers'', ''Duck World'', and ''WTF 101''. She has also appeared in several films and short films. Bishop has appeared on stage in a number of productions including ''Romeo and Juliet'' (as Juliet), ''A Midsummer Night’s Dream'' (as Hermia), ''Twelfth Night'' (as Viola) and ''Alice in Wonderland'' (as Alice) with the Australian Shakespeare Company. She has also worked for Melbourne's La Mama Theatre, appearing in ''Dr Cade'' and ''The Show Must G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Cuts (TV Series)
''Short Cuts'' was an Australian children's television series that first screened on the Seven Network in 2002. The 26-episode series was aimed at teenagers. It was financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Burberry Productions. The series was subsequently repeated on the youth-oriented network ABC3 in March and April 2011. Premise Short Cuts depicts a group of students in a media studies class facing the challenges of growing up and using a camera to express themselves for their schoolwork. Location The series was filmed at Fitzroy High School in the inner north of Melbourne. Cast Main / regular * Alex Tsitsopoulos as Ross Papasavas * Gemma Bishop as Sophie Bennett * Damien Bodie as Oscar Coxon * Katie Barnes as Fiona Frischmann * Alexander Cappelli as Kurt Winters * Leah De Niese as Ruth Hartnell * Lucia Smyrk as Anna Klopfer * Dylan Gray as Tim McQuilten * Joel Gray as Tom McQuilten * Matthew Green as Gordon Long * Kym Osborne as office guy Recurring * K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twelfth Night
''Twelfth Night, or What You Will'' is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (disguised as a page named 'Cesario') falls in love with the Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her, thinking she is a man. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with plot elements drawn from Barnabe Rich's short story "Of Apollonius and Silla", based on a story by Matteo Bandello. The first documented public performance was on 2 February 1602, at Candlemas, the formal end of Christmastide in the year's calendar. The play was not published until its inclusion in the 1623 First Folio. Characters * Viola – a shipwrecked young woman who disguises hersel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AusStage
AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up until the present day. The only repository of Australian performing arts in the world, it is managed by a consortium of universities, government agencies, industry organisations and arts institutions, and mostly funded by the Australian Research Council. Created in 2000, the database contained more than 250,000 records by 2018. History The AusStage project was instigated by the Australasian Drama Studies Association in 1999, with Flinders University in South Australia leading the project, funded by a grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Other collaborating universities were La Trobe University (Vic), University of Queensland, University of New South Wales, University of Western Australia, University of New England (NSW), Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Macedon, Victoria
Mount Macedon ( ) is a town north-west of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The town is located below the Mount Macedon, mountain of the same name, which rises to Australian Height Datum, AHD. At the 2016 Australian census, 2016 census, Mount Macedon had a population of and is best known for its collection of 19th-century gardens and associated extravagant large homes. The Mount Macedon gardens area is considered by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) to be of National Significance, as an area containing gardens and properties of outstanding significance, with a "''wide range of rare and unusual trees and plants, probably the best concentration of such vegetation in Victoria outside the Royal Botanic Gardens''", featuring "''surviving examples of work of some of Victoria's most important garden designers''" and as such, it is "''the most representative area of hill station gardens in Victoria, and with Mount Wilson and the Adelaide H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rippon Lea Estate
Rippon Lea Estate is a heritage-listed historic house and gardens located in Elsternwick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the care of the National Trust of Australia. It was added to the Australian National Heritage List on 11 August 2006. History The Rippon Lea mansion and garden was created for Sir Frederick Sargood, a wealthy Melbourne businessman, politician, and philanthropist. In 1868, Frederick and his wife, Marion, purchased Crown Allotment 253 and either all or part of Crown Allotment 260 in the Parish of Prahran, Elsternwick, giving them a total area of about 8 kilometres from the Melbourne central business district, just outside the built-up area of the city. The Rippon Lea Estate was soon joined by similar large estates. Sargood named the property after his mother, Emma Rippon, adding ''lea'', an old English word for ''meadow''. He commissioned a two-storey, 15-room house designed by architect Joseph Reed of Reed & Barnes. Like other mansion estates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Taming Of The Shrew
''The Taming of the Shrew'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. The nobleman then has the play performed for Sly's diversion. The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship; however, Petruchio "tames" her with various psychological and physical torments, such as keeping her from eating and drinking, until she becomes a desirable, compliant, and obedient bride. The subplot features a competition between the suitors of Katherina's younger sister, Bianca, who is seen as the "ideal" woman. The question of whether the play is misogynistic has become the subject of considerable controversy. ''The Taming o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Midsummer Night's Dream
''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a Comedy (drama), comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play which they are to perform before the wedding. Both groups find themselves in a forest inhabited by fairies who manipulate the humans and are engaged in their own domestic intrigue. ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is one of Shakespeare's most popular and widely performed plays. Characters The Athenians: * Theseus – Duke of Athens * Hippolyta – Queen of the Amazons and Theseus' fianceé * Hermia – in love with Lysander * Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Helena – in love with Demetrius * Lysander (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Lysander – in love with Hermia * Demetrius (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Demetrius – s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stables Theatre, Sydney
The Stables Theatre is a 105-seat theatre in Darlinghurst, Sydney. The intimate theatre has a kite-shaped stage. The theatre was built in , converting an old stables. It was originally called the Nimrod Street Theatre, giving its name to the Nimrod Theatre Company which originally performed there. The name changed to the Stables Theatre in 1975. Griffin Theatre Company has been resident in the theatre since the early 1980s. It was purchased in 1986 by Rodney Seaborn Rodney Frederick Marsden Seaborn (1912 − 17 May 2008) was an Australian psychiatrist, businessman, and philanthropist in the performing arts sector. He was responsible for supporting many theatre companies and professionals in Sydney, and ... when it was up for sale and risked demolition. He established a trust called the Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation as owners, with his cousins Peter Broughton and Leslie Walford on the board. The theatre is being renovated from 2024 to expand the stage and incr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malthouse Theatre
Malthouse Theatre is the resident theatre company of The Malthouse building in Southbank, part of the Melbourne Arts Precinct. In the 1980s it was known as the Playbox Theatre Company and was housed in the Playbox Theatre in Melbourne's CBD. It is a heritage-listed building which contains three theatres: Merlyn Theatre, Beckett Theatre, and The Tower. A multidisciplinary contemporary theatre, Malthouse Theatre produces and/or presents many productions annually, from drama and comedy to contemporary opera, music theatre and cabaret, to contemporary dance and physical theatre. The Company regularly co-produces with local and national performing arts companies and tours nationally and internationally. Malthouse Theatre productions have been performed internationally including ''Solaris'', a new play by David Greig adapted from Stanisław Lem’s novel at The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, in 2019 and ''Picnic at Hanging Rock'', in 2018 adapted by Tom Wright and dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (RBGV) are botanical garden, botanic gardens across two sites–Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Melbourne and Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne, Cranbourne. Melbourne Gardens was founded in 1846 when land was reserved on the south side of the Yarra River for a new botanic garden. It extends across that slope to the river with trees, garden beds, lakes and lawns. It displays almost 50,000 individual plants representing 8,500 different species. These are displayed in 30 living plant collections. Cranbourne Gardens was established in 1970 when land was acquired by the Gardens on Melbourne's south-eastern urban fringe for the purpose of establishing a garden dedicated to Australian plants. A generally wild site that is significant for biodiversity conservation, it opened to the public in 1989. On the site, visitors can explore native bushland, heathlands, wetlands and woodlands. One of the features of Cranbourne is the Australian Garden, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wind In The Willows
''The Wind in the Willows'' is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It details the story of Mole, Ratty, and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad, after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and gets into trouble. It also details short stories about them that are disconnected from the main narrative. The novel was based on bedtime stories Grahame told his son Alastair. It has been adapted numerous times for both stage and screen. ''The Wind in the Willows'' received negative reviews upon its initial release, but it has since become a classic of British literature. It was listed at No. 16 in the BBC's survey The Big Read and has been adapted multiple times in different media. Background In 1899, at age 40, Kenneth Grahame married Elspeth Thomson, the daughter of Robert William Thomson. The next year they had their only child, a boy named Alastair (nicknamed "Mouse"). He was born premature, blind in one eye, and plagued by health ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LA Music Awards
The LA Music Awards is a fee-based awards program originally held in the city of Los Angeles, California to celebrate new artists around the world. In 2015 the Awards held their 25th anniversary with a program in located at the Avalon Theater in Los Angeles. The international online competition allows fans to vote their favorite musical artist to the top of his/ her category. The program, which also includes the F.A.M.E. Awards (film, art, music, and entertainment) has since been relocated to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada. The show's producer, Al Bowman, is also the shows's founder. the competition proceeded thus: artists in the categories of Pop, Rock, and Country entered their application online by creating an artist page and paid an application fee. Fans then voted for their favorites via the website, eventually selecting the top10 for each of category. Those 30 artists or groups were flown to Los Angeles where they then performed and competed in front of a panel of judges. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
