In a rare theatrical event, Chaika Theatre is staging Friedrich Schiller's little-known play Mary Stuart, in which two mighty opposites – Queen Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots – take the stage together.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
HELEN MUSA writes that in what could be controversial, in the Rep's upcoming production of Lord of the Flies the more sensitive, sacrificial characters –the wise Piggy and the innocent Simon – will be played by female actors acting as boys.
There's arts news good and not so good in HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
An enthusiastic youth cast from Child Players ACT will be performing Jack and the Beanstalk - The Musical to almost 1400 Canberrans this week.
Former ANU academic PETER BROWN writes from Tahiti’s biggest cultural event of the year, the Heiva festival.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews the play 44 Sex Acts In One Week, by Canberra playwright David Finnigan, which has finally made it to town.
French cellist Christian Pierre La Marca is coming to Snow Concert Hall with his immersive multimedia concert, Wonderful World.
Canberra dancers from Legs Performing Arts is soon heading to the 2024 Tianjin International Children’s Festival, the only Australian delegation to be invited this year.
In an unsteady funding climate, you’ve got to be resourceful, and Dianna Nixon, has resourcefulness in spades. She will be presenting a reading of Fire, as a fundraiser for her ongoing project to see Millicent Armstrong, back on stage.
A celebration of the life and achievements of Stephen Pike will be held at Erindale Theatre, 2pm, Sunday August 25.
Canberra soprano Gore has the show-stopping role of Ophelia – "a very demanding role," she says. "It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do in music, but the most rewarding," she tells HELEN MUSA .
There's lots of arts to experience this week if HELEN MUSA's Artsweek column is any guide. And it is!
![Evie Hudson is a woman with amnesia, who forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control.
Evie is the leading character in local author @emmagreyauthor's second novel Pictures of You.
Her debut book, The Last Love Note, sold more than 100,000 books worldwide within a few months of being published last year.
“I think that using amnesia really helped [show the effects of coercive control] because she had that sense of being completely lost in her own life,” Emma says of her new work of fiction.
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