Reviews

Review: The Odd Couple

Pulitzer prize winner Neil Simon’s play The Odd Couple was the precursor to the beloved ‘70s TV show. While I…

10 years ago

Review: Afterplay – intimate and intellectual

An homage to Chekhov, Afterplay is a two-hander play in which the characters are taken from two different Chekhov plays…

10 years ago

The Melbourne Monologues

Now in their 34th year, Melbourne Writers’ Theatre continue their mission to foster and showcase new and established Australian writing talent…

10 years ago

Melbourne Festival: Masquerade

Kate Mulvany’s gorgeous adaption of Kit Williams's picture book Masquerade celebrates why picture books and stories are so important to…

10 years ago

Mortido at The State Theatre Company of South Australia

There isn’t any sense in which this play could be called (in Mrs Everage’s words), a “nice night’s entertainment”. It’s…

10 years ago

Melbourne Festival: Desdemona

The Melbourne Festival production of Peter Sellars Desdemona sold out. With reactions ranging from  "tedious" – there were walk outs and some…

10 years ago

Rent – Hayes Theatre Co

Jonathan Larson’s Rent originally premiered Off Broadway in 1996. Inspired by Puccini’s La Boheme, set in New York City’s East…

10 years ago

OzAsia Festival: Dear John

In a festival full of big ideas and abstract concepts, Dear John is deceptively simple. At first, the audience struggles…

10 years ago

Melbourne Festival: The Bacchae

I didn't take my eyes off the stage and am still trying to fully understand the astonishingly beautiful, often disturbing…

10 years ago

Brink Production’s The Aspirations of Daise Morrow

From the first oozings over the audience chatter, of the live music from the very accomplished Zephyr Quartet, to the…

10 years ago