Lynn Belvedere

DKL Productions presents SEX AND DEATH @ BLOOD MOON THEATRE

DKL Productions presents SEX AND DEATH @ BLOOD MOON THEATRE. Directed by Garreth Cruikshank, two unique one-act plays SOMETHING IN THE BASEMENT written by Don Nigro, and then the world premiere of IT’S TIME written by Garreth Cruikshank. Two very well written interesting message pieces about relationships, that engaged and entertained, especially as both had great twists.                     

SOMETHING IN THE BASEMENT. We meet the very unhappily married couple in their bedroom, Mary and Philip. They are arguing about sex, and she repeatedly says “Don’t bother me” however he actually asks for sex. Comedy great, Les Dawson famously said “My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects.” But this unfolding clever drama, has loud noises in their basement. He wants to come, she does not want him to come. He investigates the basement. She investigates the basement. The basement has an erotic hold on Mary. How will Phillip decide to cure Mary of her fixation on the basement? Amateur Production By Arrangement with ORiGiN Theatrical.

IT’S TIME. Election Night, Saturday 2nd December 1972. Mrs O’Brien and her son Patrick are preparing for his 21st birthday party, and are hoping for a change of government from William McMahon to Gough Whitlam. However there are dark secrets to be revealed, because Mrs O’Brien needs to confess because her son is now a man. She has hidden from her son, the Domestic Violence inflicted on her by her now long gone alcoholic husband. This play by using measured flashbacks from her married life, reveals the patriarchal Australian Society over the last two hundred years at its worst. During the last two hundred years the agony of silence required to be suffered by Australian Married Women. Alcoholism used to excuse violence from husband to wife, and the no-divorce sanctity of Catholic Marriage.

Starring: Russell Cronin, Jack Douglas, Kitty Hopwood, David Luke, Annette van Roden

Costume Design: Annette van Roden. Sound Design: Mehran Mortezai. Set Design: Garreth Cruikshank and David Luke

Blood Moon Theatre is an intimate space seating an audience of fifty, and is located in the World Bar in Potts Point.

 

7:30pm 10th April until 28th April 2018.

Duration under two hours, including one interval.

Blood Moon Theatre, The World Bar, 24 Bayswater Road, Potts Point, NSW.

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Published by Lynn Belvedere

Once we were old enough, my parents took the whole family to the Sydney CBD cinemas every week. Thus began a lifetime interest, in going to the cinema every week, and became a passionate cinephile by watching all those very heavily edited ''Australian Film Censorship Board'' true cinéaste versions of brand new release ''Cinematograph Films''. Greater Union always gave my father (who worked in Cinema Distribution Exhibition) guest double movie passes, to every first-night ''red carpet Opening Night'' at The State Theatre Cinema at 49 Market Street. Up until his death, my dad always received ''two house seats'' for every Opening Night performance events at the Theatre Royal SYDNEY and at Her Majesty's Theatre SYDNEY. As a child, when mum choose not to go, I often went with him, to those live performance events. As a young child, I remember being taken for each new show, at both The New Theatre at 60 Sussex Street, and the Phillip Street Theatre when located at 150 Elizabeth Street, and for classical music concerts at Sydney Town Hall. = = = ★★★★★ = = = Being happy is a choice, and I have always viewed my life, as material ready be made into a series of amazing tentpole movies. My New Years Resolution is kept every year: ''Get to see/review five new live theatre shows each week, and get to see/review six new cinema movies each week'', plus is one of the Australian Cinema Pioneers, and apparently have seen far too much already, but always wanting to experience more and more each year. I am also able to do almost everything that I enjoy doing. Yes, I do have a great daytime job in I.T. as ''Software Design Project Manager'', PLUS each evening until quite late - - - Australian Cinematograph Films historical censorship consultant - product-placement consultant - mystery-shopper consultant - playwright, writer, author, director, producer, photographer, cinematographer, color-grader, subtitles proofreader - arts/ drama/ music/ film critic and judge, journalist, member FIPRESCI & FCCA & AFCA, member AACTA accredited film reviewer-critic-writer, accredited IMDB.COM critic-reviewer-author, projectionist, plus an innovative iconoclast - - - ★★★★★ LYNN BELVEDERE ★★★★★ - - - [usr 5] - - -