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- VIRGIA GAY: I HAVE NO TERT GETTG MARRIED UNTIL WE HAVE MARRIAGE EQUALY
- ON THE COUCH WH VIRGIA GAY
- ‘SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT’: ACTOR VIRGIA GAY ON HER MOTHER’S VALUABLE ADVICE
VIRGIA GAY: I HAVE NO TERT GETTG MARRIED UNTIL WE HAVE MARRIAGE EQUALY
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ON THE COUCH WH VIRGIA GAY
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About 1, 000 people formed a Pri flag outsi the Sydney Opera Hoe on the anniversary of the first Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras 1978. Speakg to GAY TIMES ahead of the ftivi gettg unrway, Sydney WorldPri CEO Kate Wickett said the 17-day-long celebratns are “about brgg a multiplicy of voic together om across the world and both celebratg and advotg.
‘SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT’: ACTOR VIRGIA GAY ON HER MOTHER’S VALUABLE ADVICE
You n learn more about the highly anticipated event by readg GAY TIMES’ terview wh Kate Wickett and Courtney Act here. 19pmThis wrap of shows around Melbourne clus Virgia Gay’s imagative adaptatn of a classic, a double bill of morn Amerin opera, an imaged enunter between Mart Luther Kg Jr. THEATRECyrano ★★½Virgia Gay after Edmond Rostand, MTC, until October 29Awash wh low edy and the irreprsible spir of amatr theatre, Virgia Gay’s ee adaptatn of Cyrano Bergerac will make you lgh and snort and snigger, even as stumbl at transfigurg the ridiculo to the Narkle and Virgia Gay the Melbourne Theatre Company productn of Jeff BbyOn paper, the show is a hot ticket.
No one who saw Gay Calamy Jane uld doubt her geni for edy, and there was every reason to thk she’d brg the same quick-off-the-draw w, heightened timacy, and razor-sharp timg to Rostand’s unorthodox hero. Unfortunately, Gay isn’t as seasoned a wrer as she is a performer, and while you will, most certaly, lgh at this adaptatn – Gay is the kd of actor who uld make the phone book funny – you may sometim wonr whether you trouble don’t lie queerg Cyrano or reversg the character’s genr, but the lip-service Gay’s script pays to poetry.
Here, there is an almost perverse aversn to the magic of words – a bumblg meta-theatril ame tak over; high rhetoric is chewed favour of humour that plays to the lowt mon are patiently explaed by Cyrano (Gay) and her merry chos of am-dram clowns (Milo Hartill, Rob Goldsworthy and Holly At), and they’re sometim enacted as if they were a gdgg afterthought, a way that feels patronisg to dienc and disrpectful to the artistry of the of which is to ny the ensemble creat lively and divertg moments, om jnty chos numbers to the silly ventriloquism of Cyrano woog on behalf of Cl Jabbour’s ultimate himbo, although you’ll have to wa through dick jok, and other forlorn attempts at w, to get to them. A scene om Cyrano at Melbourne Theatre Jeff BbyIt’s a shame, too, for anyone (myself clud) who would leap at the chance to see Gay perform any of Rostand’s sweepg speech the plat translatn.