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PULP continues to be PULP, whatever that means to you. Just not your grandma’s orange juice, and definitely not your favourite Britpop band.
Whilst these adaptations are perfectly fine, there’s an anachronism that can accompany any production put to stage from another era. There’s merit in rote for rote recreations, but I will always prefer a distortion of a classic akin to what Zoe Le Marinel, Jasmine Jenkins, and their team have put to the stage with SUDS Slot 4’s Deathwatch (1947) by Jean Genet.
The liminal area between teendom and adulthood, between Sydney and Melbourne, between friends and enemies, between ad breaks. Everything that happens within is transitional and temporary: “all we do [at Troy’s house] is recount the last event and talk about the next one.”
‘Blithe Spirit’ is a 3-act performance that acts as an absolute testament to what student theatre can be.
I often found myself wishing I had an extra eye to see the splendour of it all.
After all, the Quad was a great place to be lost in, every path ended in a class, a corridor or a gateway.
A sensory aigís, expect an odyssey of emotion, talent and stagecraft.
Play On, written and directed by Gemma Hudson, is an ambitious and exciting cross of And Then There Were None with Heathers.
Coffee to the architect is what sexual frustration is to the engineer. A point of conversation, a particular quirk, one’s whole personality.
Our university has an awful lot of stuff.
Names give character, imply history, and best of all, bring life to the spaces to which they are assigned.
Photographs of Lake Northam in the late 1800s reveal a sprawling body of water worthy of the now-overstated title ‘Lake’.
Brilliantly adapted by directors Kieran Casey and Charlie Papps, the production offers a night of gut-wrenching laughter and meta-theatrical analysis in their double (O’) bill of two modern absurdist classics
It wasn’t until I opened an alumni account that I finally came to terms with losing access to my university emails.
Binary opposites become whole in SUDS’ vibrant reimagining of the play, and though its discussions of thermodynamics, aesthetics, and sex may at first seem arbitrary, they have profound intention.
Danial Yazdani’s adaptation of the American classic honours the complexities of Australian immigrant experiences.
From tea room to bomb shelter to jazz bar.
Crackling with the electricity of theatre, Heat Lightning captures characters grappling with economic hardship and emotional unrest.
Fun, fantastical, and hot off the press, StuJo! The Musical serves up a loving tribute to all things campus journalism.
Off-Offstage is structured as a variety show, featuring monologues, group performances, and songs performed by its motley cast of SUDS members who have (presumably) suffered through the epic highs and lows of HSC Drama themselves.
Paintings, photographs and sculptures are scattered throughout campus, sitting on walls and perched in unassuming corners.
Forget the whole schtick about the wagging art student drinking turpentine, University is making art purely academic.
Imaginative theatre has a new set of puppet masters
Free of curses but full of bricks, USyd’s newest LEGO model is a sight to see.
There’s nothing more Popular than laughter.
The theatre kids are having an election
MUSE makes a wager on a classic musical and wins big.
SUDS’ penultimate slot delivers biting social commentary and razor-sharp performances.