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John Sheedy (director)
John Sheedy is an Australian theatre director. Early life and education Sheedy was educated at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Career Sheedy is a director of drama and musicals for the stage as well as opera. He has built up a body of work for theatres in Australia and overseas festivals. He has been a regular guest at Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, and the Perth International Arts Festival. Theatre Sheedy has a career working with Australian theatre companies. For Belvoir Street Theatre, Sheedy directed Sarah Kane’s play ''Blasted'', Lawrence Mooney’s ''Sink or Swim'' and Patricia Cornelius’ play ''Love'' ( 2006 ), Sheedy was also Assistant Director on ''The Lieutenant of Inishmore'' with Neil Armfield (2004). Sheedy directed a season of Mark Ravenhill’s play ''Some Explicit Polaroids'' at Darlinghurst Theatre. ''Some Explicit Polaroids'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Institute Of Dramatic Art
The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is an Australian educational institution for the performing arts based in Sydney, New South Wales. Founded in 1958, it offers bachelor's, master's and vocational degrees in subjects including acting, writing, directing, scenic construction, technical theatre, voice, costume, props, production design and cultural leadership. In 2024, NIDA was named as #13 in the "World's 25 Best Drama Schools" by ''The Hollywood Reporter''. NIDA's main campus is based in the Sydney suburb of Kensington, New South Wales, Kensington, located adjacent to the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and is made up of a range of rehearsal and performance venues. Its performance venues include the Parade Theatre (also the name of an earlier venue in NIDA's history); the Space; the Studio Theatre; and the Playhouse, while the Rodney Seaborn Library forms part of its library and the Reg Grundy Studio is a training and production facility for film and television. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carriageworks
Carriageworks is a multi-arts urban cultural precinct located at the former Eveleigh Carriage Workshops in Redfern, New South Wales, Redfern, Sydney, Australia. Carriageworks showcases contemporary art and performing arts, as well as being used for filming, festivals, fairs and commercial exhibitions. The largest such venue in Australia, it is a cultural facility of the Government of New South Wales, and receives support from Create NSW and the Australian Government, federal government through the Australia Council for the Arts. The centre has commissioned new work by Australian and international artists, and has been home to eight theatre, dance and film companies, including Performance Space, Sydney Chamber Opera and Moogahlin Performing Arts, and a weekly farmers' market has operated there for many years. On 4 May 2020, Carriageworks Limited, the company that operates the venue, entered voluntary administration and closed, citing an “irreparable loss of income” due to go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The West Australian
''The West Australian'' is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia. It is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, ''The Sunday Times''. It is the second-oldest continuously produced newspaper in Australia, having been published since 1833. It tends to have conservative leanings, and has mostly supported the Liberal–National Party Coalition. It has Australia's largest share of market penetration (84% of WA) of any newspaper in the country. Content ''The West Australian'' publishes international, national and local news. , newsgathering was integrated with the TV news and current-affairs operations of '' Seven News'', Perth, which moved its news staff to the paper's Osborne Park premises. SWM also publishes two websites from Osborne Park—thewest.com.au and PerthNow. The daily newspaper includes lift-outs including Play Magazine, The Guide, West Weekend, and Body and Soul. Thewest.com.au is the online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Performing Arts WA Awards
The Performing Arts WA Awards, or PAWA Awards, are annual awards for the live performing arts in Perth, Western Australia. The Awards are held by Artist Relief Fund WA, and were formerly known as the Equity Guild Awards. The awards include mainstage theatre and independent theatre and, from 2018, dance. A musicals & opera section was introduced in 2021. Selected awards Theatre: Best Mainstage Production * 2025: ''Logue Lake'', Geordie Crawley & Elise Wilson in association with Perth Festival * 2024: '' Things I Know To Be True'', Black Swan State Theatre Company * 2023: ''The Smallest Stage'', Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre for Perth Festival * 2022: ''Beanstalk'', Spare Parts Puppet Theatre * 2021: ''Hecate'', Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company in association with Bell Shakespeare and Perth Festival *2020: ''On Our Beach'', Spare Parts Puppet Theatre * 2019: ''You Know We Belong Together'', a Black Swan, Perth Festival and DADAA co-production * 2018: ''The Eisteddfod'', Blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (theatre), play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, King Claudius, Claudius, who has murdered Ghost (Hamlet), Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Gertrude (Hamlet), Hamlet's mother. ''Hamlet'' is considered among the "most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language", with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others." It is widely considered one of the greatest plays of all time. Three different early versions of the play are extant: the Hamlet Q1, First Quarto (Q1, 1603); the Second Quarto (Q2, 1604); and the First Folio (F1, 1623). Each version includes lines and passages missing from the others. Many works have been pointed to as possible s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parramatta Riverside Theatres
Riverside Theatres is a multi-venue performing arts centre located in the CBD of Parramatta in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Opened in 1988, its venues include the 761-seat proscenium arch Riverside Theatre, the 213-seat Lennox Theatre, and the 88-seat Rafferty's Theatre. The proscenium arch's architectural design is inspired by the common European Opera House concept, which lends an intimate and live performance space. It is considered to be an A Reserve house, which implies that the sight-lines are perfect for most seats and a standard ticket price is applicable to the entire house at the Hirer's discretion. The National Theatre of Parramatta is a resident theatre company. Other regular companies and productions that perform there include Packemin Productions, Sydney Theatre Company Sydney Theatre Company (STC) is an Australian theatre company based in Sydney, New South Wales. The company performs in the Wharf Theatre at Dawes Point in The R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helpmann Award For Best Presentation For Children
The Helpmann Award for Best Presentation for Children is an award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2001. The award recognises excellence in live performance created especially for children and young persons up to the age of 18 years. Winners and nominees See also *Helpmann Awards References External linksThe official Helpmann Awards website {{Helpmann Awards Helpmann Awards, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helpmann Awards
The Helpmann Awards are accolades for live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Performance Australia (LPA) since 2001. The annual awards recognise achievements in the disciplines of musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, opera, classical music, theatre, dance and physical theatre. Over forty awards are given to productions, festivals and concerts, and for individuals for their work in performance, direction, choreography, lighting, sound, music, costume and scenic design. They are named in honour of ballet dancer, choreographer, director and actor Sir Robert Helpmann. The awards are the Australian equivalent of the United States' Tony Awards for Broadway theatre and the United Kingdom's Laurence Olivier Awards for West End theatre. The Helpmann Awards were last awarded in 2019. LPA cancelled the 2020 and 2021 awards due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No public statement has been made for subsequent years. History The Help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driving Into Walls
Driving into Walls (2012) is a play written by Suzie Miller and produced by Barking Gecko Theatre Company. Development Miller and director John Sheedy interviewed over 500 Western Australian teens for the play, asking about their day-to-day lives and drawing from that many of the stories of the play. Plot The plot of the story focuses on five teenagers and their online and offline relationships. The story does not follow a linear narrative and is more a collection of short stories with a shared message than one complete story. Performances Under the direction of John Sheedy, the show was first performed as part of the 2012 Perth International Arts Festival. It was later performed in the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia The State Theatre Centre of Western Australia is a theatre complex located within the Perth Cultural Centre in Perth, Western Australia. The larger of three dedicated performance areas is known as the Heath Ledger Theatre in honour of Perth-born f ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born 15 January 1974) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated short film adaptation of the 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. He also wrote and illustrated the books '' The Red Tree'' (2001) and '' The Arrival'' (2006). Born in Fremantle, Tan grew up in Perth. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel ''The Arrival'' won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. It also won the 2007 Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award, and the 2006 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize. Tan's work has been described as an "Australian vernacular" that is "at once banal and uncanny, familiar and strange, local and universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself." For his career contribution to "children's and young adul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Silvey
Craig Silvey (born 1 January 1982) is an Australian novelist. Silvey has twice been named one of the Best Young Australian Novelists by ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and has been shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His 2009 second novel was selected by the American Library Association as Best Fiction for Young Adults in their 2012 list, and was made into the movie '' Jasper Jones'' in 2017. Education Silvey grew up in a town in the south-west of Western Australia called Dwellingup. His father was an industrial arts teacher, and his mother was a teacher-librarian. Educated at the Independent Pioneer Village School, Silvey describes the experience as unusual in that it is located in Armadale's Pioneer Village which is an open-air museum "...in the style of an 1800s gold mining town with an old mine shaft". "It was certainly weird", says Silvey. "The girls had straw hats and big white socks, the boys had black cricket-style caps. Other than that it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barking Gecko Theatre Company
Barking Gecko Arts, is a Western Australian professional theatre company for children and families. Since September 2024 incorporating AWESOME Arts, the CEO is Ryan Taaffe artistic director and the artistic director is Sam Longley. History Acting Out was founded by artistic director John Saunders as a theatre company for children, touring schools and rural areas in WA. Barking Gecko Theatre Company was established in Perth in 1989 by the succeeding artistic director, Grahame Gavin, as an independent, not-for-profit company for young people and families. In 1996, AWESOME Arts was formed as a separate entity from Barking Gecko, and AWESOME Arts started presenting the annual AWESOME International Arts Festival for Bright Young Things in Perth in the September school holidays each year. The company has performed plays by award-winning playwright Suzie Miller, including ''Driving Into Walls'' (2012) and ''Onefivezeroseven'' (2014). The company's most notable productions include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
