Suzy Wrong is usually in Sydney, but grew up in Singapore where she had worked both onstage and behind the scenes in the 1990s. In 1996 she won “Performance of the Year” for her role in Purple (Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble) at the Life Theatre Awards. She graduated from the University of New South Wales with a BA in Theatre and Film Studies, and while she works now in the publishing industry, the theatre is still where she spends most of her leisure time. She started her blog Suzy Goes See in April of 2013, and has written over 150 reviews to date.
The premise is simple. Spouses Kitty Witless and Dan Von Dandy were accidentally frozen under a torrent of snow and cocaine in the 1920s, but were discovered and revived in our very recent times of global warming. Both happen to …
Written in 1977, this “play with music” appeared just two years before the inaugural Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. It contains some of the earliest progressive depictions of same sex relationships, and is an excellent choice for the …
Bob Fosse directed and choreographed the iconic Sweet Charity, on stage and on film, in the late 1960s. The dance sequences are some of the most striking moving images ever seen, so one of the main challenges in staging …
Aerial acrobatics can be relied upon to provide exciting thrills, as it easily evokes sensations of tension and vertigo, but to create narratives and imagery that bear strong aesthetic appeal within that framework is a challenging one. OCKHAM’S RAZOR succeeds …
Featuring a diverse selection from the Sydney cabaret scene, Short+Sweet encapsulates the best of our weird and wacky performers, all of whom are idiosyncratic and many, talented and original. The inaugural event concluded with an awards night where winners were …
With AM I, Shaun Parker & Company continues to redefine Australian dance and identity. This work relies heavily on traditional Indian forms of performance and Chinese martial arts, to create a new contemporary dance that is not only about Australia …
THE CAKE MAN was written and staged originally in the early 1970s, from the perspective of Aboriginal Australians, about life on a mission in country NSW. Forty years on, a contemporary staging remains relevant and poignant. There is nothing dated …
When an actor and a singer come together to create a work in the cabaret space, it is a sure sign that they are on a mission to break theatrical rules in order to create something unique and fresh. ON/OFF …
Every show is a collaborative effort comprised of many disciplines and disparate elements, but in The Maintenance Room, the actors’ performances are so fine that it is hard for the audience to focus beyond their spectacular work.
Gerry Greenland’s …
The Australian Ballet’s latest classical offering is a double bill with works from the Romantic era, La Sylphide from 1836 and Paquita,1847. The “grand pas de deux” from Paquita opens the program with electric vibrancy. It is an exciting …