Aspirations, egos, classes and tones all clash in ‘The Overcoat’ – a title as innocuous as it is resultantly tragic. Set in Saint Petersburg amidst a regimented and immeasurably ordered approach to bureaucracy, Nikolai […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
BELLEVILLE
Emotions. All of the emotions. Belleville parks its elephant in the room from the very beginning, making it evident that at some point, probably towards the end, something very, very bad is going to happen. […]
A Royal Night Out
A Royal Night Out is British, royalist fanfare at its most trifling and frivolous, in large part undeniably enjoyable. The title ‘A Royal Affair’ being taken, A Royal Night Out is the latest in a long line […]
Cinderella
Disney own our childhoods, and they’re cashing in. Cinderella is the latest in a series of adapted for adults, hyper-realistic, live-action remakes of our fondest adolescent memories. The story doesn’t need repeating – Cinderella (Lily […]
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