Staging Ken Kesey’s iconic novel, no less in light of the seminal film adaptation, is no small feat. Thankfully Sport For Jove are reliably up to the challenge. Set amidst a mental hospital in 1960’s […]
Category: Theatre
NEVILLE’S ISLAND
A charmingly episodic romp through the Australian wilderness, Neville’s Island succeeds on the charisma of it’s enviable cast. Stranded on an island, four friends have to make do with the precious little cargo fastened to […]
CLOUD NINE
It’s almost always better when you start things off with a bang. Striding onto the stage without warning, a lone figure resolutely seats himself at a piano and begins to play, only for Cloud Nine’s strikingly talented […]
MR BURNS
“A perfectly cromulent play, Mr Burns will embiggen the spirits of even the most casual Simpsons viewers.” Imagine a world where Homer didn’t avert a disaster at the power plant and everyone is plunged […]
THE BODYGUARD
Jolting you into your seat, The Bodyguard, in a manner unlike almost any other musical, starts off with a bang. Attention-ready and all too focused on the stage, the actual show kicks off with a […]
BIG FISH
With film-to-musical adaptations the flavour of the day, the Hayes Theatre Co has provided another example of how it can be done. You might not have seen Big Fish, or if you did remember it […]
TALK
Hit and very miss, the Sydney Theatre Company’s attempted jab at Australia’s media landscape skewers its inevitably niche audience as much as it panders to them. Director/Writer Jonathan Biggins, ensuring the words Ray, Hadley, Andrew […]
TWO
Sometimes, it just takes two. There are fourteen characters in the Ensemble Theatre’s latest production Two, with Brian Meegan and Kate Raison adopting seven personas apiece. Each flitting about a local pub on a busy […]
RICHARD 3
It’s rare that a play receives such hype and attention before its debut, and rarer still when it so deserves it. Bell Shakespeare’s Richard 3, helmed by Artistic Director Peter Evans following the recent retirement […]
ANTIGONE
With perhaps the earliest known classic to get the prequel treatment, Sport for Jove have done it again. The highly imaginative theatre troupe which only months ago blended Shakepeare’s The Taming of the Shrew with […]
MARY POPPINS
Nostalgia goes a long way – so does a great cast. We’ve all seen the movie, but maybe not the musical. The Willoughby Theatre Company’s latest production has all the hallmarks of perhaps the most […]
SIDE SHOW
A talented cast isn’t everything; the Hayes Theatre Company’s production of Side Show being a case in point. A story revived and revised in numerous productions, the real-life tale of travelling ‘freak-show’ conjoined twins Daisy […]
THE MEASURE OF A MAN
Gavin Roach’s second instalment of the Anxiety Trilogy, if intriguing, leaves a lot to be desired. A one-man, 50-minute show as part of this year’s Sydney Fringe Festival, in his latest Roach expounds on life […]
WHERE DO LITTLE BIRDS GO?
A one-woman show, save a seldom-heard pianist, Where Do Little Birds Go? unfurls a chapter in underground London’s sordid history. Based on a true story: Lucy (Bishaniya Vincent) recounts her youth and friendships, moseying around […]
BATTLERS AND DREAMERS
Denim. Hair gel. A nice Australian neighbourhood. Power chords. The quintessential ingredients to any 80s farce, Battlers and Dreamers is an original musical take-off of all those classic Aussie family dramas you knew and loved, […]
WHARF REVUE
There’s never been a better time to stage a political satire. Coinciding with the first sitting week of the new Parliament, the Wharf Revue is back with no shortage of material direct from the halls […]
ALADDIN THE MUSICAL
The latest Disney smash to get the stage-musical treatment, relive the childhood classic about a thief and fugitive who lies to a girl and her father so he can marry her under a presumed identity, […]
JEEVES AND WOOSTER IN PERFECT NONSENSE
Long before Jeeves was the go-to moniker for British-as-anything valets and the like, there was Jeeves (Joseph Chance) the British-as-anything valet and Wooster (Matthew Carter), the gadabout rogue, wreaking havoc on the early 20th century […]
LOOK BACK IN ANGER
Every play, to some extent, tries to immerse the audience in the action, however intimate or shocking. In Red Line Productions’ staging of John Osborne’s classic Look Back in Anger you are, thrillingly, as in […]
BETRAYAL
Chemistry can make or break a show – in Betrayal, it’s everything, and deployed to sublime effect. It’s a tale as old as time – three people, established friends and lovers, outwardly in happy, committed […]
YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
As if flipping through the pages of the iconic strip, the Hayes Theatre Company has joyously brought Charlie Brown and co to life. Simply staged with a local cast of six, the musical’s episodic approach […]
‘THE LITERATI’ REVIEW – IN THE STYLE OF THE PLAY
I enjoyed The Literati so much, I thought I’d do something a little different and write up a review in the imaginative style of the play. For my more, traditional review, see here […]
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