by Alana Valentine | May 29, 2024 | 2024, Featured Home Page, News
These stories drawn from people married at the Wayside Chapel in Sydney reshape our understanding of this country’s social history, from a uniquely Australian institution where people have been welcomed for decades in spite of social taboos around race, class,...
by Alana Valentine | Feb 24, 2024 | Featured Home Page, Uncategorized
‘Valentine’s script, with its internal rhyming and heightened poetic register, is cleverly attuned to the music surrounding it, and the integration of Hugo’s soaring prose exulting the grand dame is deeply persuasive. Notre Dame was never just a building; it was...
by Alana Valentine | Oct 27, 2023 | 2024, Featured Home Page, News
Sydney Festival 10 – 14 January, 2024. Cabaret written by Alana Valentine, directed by Liesel Badorrek, performed by Elenoa Rokobaro. Book tickets
by Alana Valentine | Oct 27, 2023 | 2024, Featured Home Page, News, Opera, Oratorio, Recent
Watershed, a ravishing new operatic work and the hit of the 2022 Adelaide Festival, is a collaboration between some of Australia’s most acclaimed creative talents. Alana Valentine and Christos Tsiolkas have created a searing libretto for Joe Twist’s...
by Alana Valentine | Sep 22, 2023 | 2023, Featured Home Page, News, Public Event, Uncategorized
Spirited, soulful and unapologetically French, Notre-Dame commemorates eight centuries of exquisite music performed within Notre-Dame de Paris. It is a story told in a moving theatrical experience of spoken word penned by award-winning playwright and director Alana...
by Alana Valentine | Mar 20, 2023 | Featured Home Page, News
Playwright Alana Valentine and writer Sheila Ngoc Pham reflect on the writing of Sydney histories on the stage. Alana will speak about writing the history of Sydney institutions including the Parramatta Girls Home in her playParramatta Girls, the Pyrmont CSR Sugar...
