AUDITORIUM

✮✮✮ 1/2 David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Andrew Upton It is the simple story of a man caught between good and evil, one that never seems to get old. It is the eternal experience of us all, no matter where or when in the annals of history we find ourselves. Bob is a Hollywood executive who has to choose between art and commerce, and in David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow, that relationship is a strictly dichotomous one. Art is good, commerce is

✮✮✮ 1/2 Andrew Upton's A Flea in Her Ear Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Simon Phillips Raymonde Chandebise has doubts of her husband’s fidelity, as Victor Emmanuel is suddenly unable to perform in bed (he blames a disappointing night at the theatre). Putting his devotion to the test, Raymonde sends a letter from an anonymous admirer requesting Victor Emmanuel meet for a tryst at a sleazy hotel, thereby initiating a series of humorous mishaps and high jinks in Geo

✮✮✮✮✮ Andrew Upton's The Present after Anton Chekhov's Platonov Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by John Crowley What is now known to be Anton Chekhov’s Platonov, was an unpublished manuscript discovered a decade after the playwright’s 1904 death. His sister had called it “a long play without a title”, and it remains an obscure component of the master’s oeuvre. Andrew Upton’s The Present is an adaptation of the aforementioned work by the young Chekhov, and is signific