"Our biggest and boldest season yet!" Lachlan Driscoll on the launch of Observatory Theatre's 2023 Season
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"Our biggest and boldest season yet!" Lachlan Driscoll on the launch of Observatory Theatre's 2023 Season

I think seasons are a fantastic way to involve audiences more deeply in what we do as a company and also the shows themselves. The season becomes an invitation to get a bit closer. The curation of a season of work around a core focus is a chance for audiences to gain more meaning than if the shows were just standalone.

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The Bull, The Moon & the Coronet of Stars by Van Badham | Directed By Heidi Manché
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The Bull, The Moon & the Coronet of Stars by Van Badham | Directed By Heidi Manché

I am a mere handful of years younger than our playwright and I recognised the tropes enough to know them for what they were – the blue summer dress, the man-hungry vixen, the affair that misfires when a younger woman throws herself at an attractive married man, his classic retreat to the wife, the larrikin who successfully woos the broken-hearted self-imposed-abstinent woman (he “knows about women”). These are the stories that filled a hundred novels when I was a voraciously-read teen and I think I liked them better then than I do now.

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Common People Dance Eisteddfod | Common People Dance Project
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Common People Dance Eisteddfod | Common People Dance Project

Through sheer force of will and an encyclopedic knowledge of 80s choreography, Neridah has created the impossible – the dance off to end all dance offs that citizens from all sides of river and all walks of life could enjoy. Comprising of at least seven choreographed routines, three celebrity judges, over 100 performers and a competition where cheating is encouraged, it became the hottest ticket in town.

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