Latest Stage & Screen

• Filmmaker Jane Campion receives prestigious Cannes award

  

  New Zealand-born, Australian-based filmmaker Jane Campion has been acknowledged by her peers receiving the prestigious Carrosse d’Or in Cannes last week. Her latest work, a six-hour critically acclaimed crime miniseries ‘Top of the Lake’ was filmed in New Zealand and is set to be aired on UK’s BBC2.

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• The Great Gatsby enjoys star-studded Sydney première

  

  Moviegoers and literature fans have been anticipating the release of Baz Luhrmann’s big screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby, which officially opened the Cannes Film Festival last week. The movie enjoyed it’s première in Australia on Wednesday night, at a star-studded event held at Sydney’s Fox Studios.

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• Travels With My Aunt; A trip worth taking

  

  REVIEW | Travels With My Aunt at the Menier Chocolate Factory is a theatrical trifecta; clever writing, brilliant directing and acting that will blow you a world away.

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• Mover and shaker | Sarah Fahie on life as a opera director

  

  WILL FITZGIBBON chats with opera choreographer and director Sarah Fahie. Her work can be seen in the revival of Verdi’s Falstaff, now on at Glyndebourne.

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• Director Baz Luhrmann tells Cannes he expected Gatsby criticism

  

  Australian director Baz Luhrmann has told media in Cannes he expected criticism over The Great Gatsby, but he’s humbled by its early success.

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• Explorer Simon Reeve challenges UK stereotypes of Oz in new series

  

  INTERVIEW | Australia with Simon Reeve, a three-part series scheduled to premiere on BBC2 on Sunday night, follows the author and television presenter as he attempts to challenge the pre-conceptions that British audiences have about Australia, including bikies, dangerous wildlife and the Outback.

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• Travels With My Aunt is now boarding

  

  Pack your bags because The Menier Chocolate Factory is taking you on a round-the-world trip with their new production Travels With My Aunt. It stars Australian born actor Jonathan Hyde.

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• EastEnd Cabaret @ Soho Theatre

  

  INTERVIEW | Fresh from performing at Australia’s famed Adelaide Fringe Festival and Melbourne’s Spiegeltent, EastEnd Cabaret bring their newfound love of Bundy and Cola back to London’s Soho Theatre with their show Notoriously Kinky.

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• Merrily we roll along to the West End

  

  Winner of the Critics Circle Award for Best New Musical, the revival of Merrily We Roll Along is about to re-open, this time in the West End. Damian Humbley, an Australian musical theatre performer, is staring in the highly acclaimed show.

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• BBC to film new convict drama series in Australia

  

  The BBC is set to travel Down Under next year to film an eight-part television drama about the foundation of the first British penal colony in Australia at the end of the 18th century.

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• Aussie talent teases at London Burlesque Festival

  

  Ahead of her performances at the London Burlesque Festival in May, Miss Strawberry Siren, a highly acclaimed cabaret artist from Australia, is proving that when it comes to burlesque, there are no rules.

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• Police called to Australian set of Geordie Shore

  

  The Australian-based production of British reality television program Geordie Shore has already begun courting controversy, with police dispatched to intervene in a public disturbance at the show’s Sydney base in Coogee on the first day of filming.

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• An Evening with Erin Cornell at St James Studio

  

  For one night only this Sunday, accompanied by musical director Theo Jamieson and band, don’t miss Aussie songstress Erin Cornell light up the stage, live at the St James Studio.

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• Tosca at the Royal Opera House, London

  

  REVIEW | Melbourne born opera director revitalises Tosca, a dramatic tale of love and murder in Italy on stage at the Royal Opera House. The production also features Australian tenor Hubert Frances in the role of Spoletta.

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• Alias Ruby Blade documents remarkable story of Kirsty Sword

  

  Documentary film Alias Ruby Blade offers a unique insight into the tumultuous birth of a new nation in Timor-Leste through the story of Kirsty Sword, a young Australian activist who provided valuable assistance to the resistance and ultimately fell in love with resistance leader, and first President of Timor-Leste, Xanana Gusmao.

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• Will Gen Y sink or swim in Submerge?

  

  INTERVIEW | Submerge is a new Australian film which explores the pressures facing Gen Y. It is screening as part of the 27th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival on Tuesday 19 March 2013.

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• Hamish and Andy battle it out for Gold Logie as nominations revealed

  

  The nominations for the 2013 TV Week Logie Awards – Australian TV’s night of nights – has been announced, with Channel Nine again leading the pack.

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• Full list of 2013 Logie Award nominations

  

  Full list of 2013 Logie Award nominations.

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• At the fringe: London’s Fringe Theatre scene

  

  London is a theatre hub but it’s the emerging talent at the fringe who are really doing it for the love of the job.

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• Australian talent reigns supreme in Stoker

  

  The Australian invasion of Hollywood has never been more evident than in Stoker, a Hitchcock style thriller now showing in UK theatres.

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