While the play was certainly an ode to the whimsy and abject lunacy of the student life, the ‘60s/‘20s juxtaposition provides an opportunity to reflect on the progresses, and regresses, of Australian culture and the university system (think HECs, lock-out laws, department mergers, the commodification of tertiary study, the inaccessibility of student housing).
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N.B. This review features minor spoilers Achingly beautiful and gut-wrenchingly tragic, Tommy Murphy’s seminal queer play Holding the Man is…
As a former USyd student, Alexander sees their publication as a way to extend the folly, play of campus publications, and creative spaces beyond the institution’s walls and degree timespans.
The real strength of Screwd! lies in its inversion of the punchline. It empathises with its female characters and has us laughing squarely at the absurdity of male entitlement.
I joined the Sydney University Dramatic Society (SUDS) halfway through 2022 during the second year of my degree. I’d seen…
The recent Sydney University Dramatic Society (SUDS) production of Rolleo and Juliet is an acerbic and witty romp through romance,…
SUDS has opted to end this year with a bang. More accurately, they’ve ended it with several, all in the…
Director Jeremy Jenkins and assistant director Hunter Shanahan have mercilessly cast seven shockingly funny performers that turn Noel Coward’s tight-lipped English comedy into a playground.
Ruhl’s play is about the lovers, sure, but with the introduction of Eurydice’s Father, the play then becomes something more – a meditation on memory, and loss, and love, and what it means to be a daughter to a father.
As a former goal defence, Play On was everything. It reflects the realness of finding friends, love and jealousy amongst one another, and the familial bond that is created.
