Reviews

Blaque Showgirls – Malthouse Theatre

Ginny (Bessie Holland) is growing up in Chitole, a small town where the locals - both Indigenous and non-Indigenous -…

8 years ago

LadyCake – Three Birds Theatre

There’s something exquisite about entering the Trades Hall to see LadyCake. It’s the slight vertigo that derives from crossing the…

8 years ago

Speed the Plow – Sydney Theatre Company

After the week we’ve had and the blow it’s been for women and minority groups everywhere, the idea of escaping…

9 years ago

The Production Company: Dusty

The Production Company's DUSTY at the Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne, is a disappointingly narrow tribute to one of the most complex…

9 years ago

The Odd Couple is an odd choice

“Is she pregnant? No just fat.” Boom-boom. It’s such a good week to remind us that women are best kept…

9 years ago

Anti-Hamlet

Shakespeare’s beloved Dane is savagely exploded in Mark Wilson’s Anti-Hamlet, appearing at Theatre Works. The familiar warble of “Advance Australia…

9 years ago

Marat/Sade – New Theatre, Newtown

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction…

9 years ago

The World Without Birds

Writer Christine Croyden weaves a rich ornithological allegory in The World without Birds, the latest offering from Melbourne Writers’ Theatre,…

9 years ago

The Light in the Piazza

Perfectly cast and handsomely staged, the Melbourne professional premiere of exquisitely romantic gem The Light in the Piazza shimmers with…

9 years ago

The Turquoise Elephant – Griffin Theatre Company

If you want to laugh your way into a downward existential spiral about the way humanity has screwed the world,…

9 years ago