BEGUILED is described as “a performance installation experience” and at the start of the performance the artists invite the audience to accept the magic and essentially open themselves to possibilities. This indicates one should not expect conventional theatre and, within
POLLIES SITTING DUCKS FOR WHARF REVUE TEAM
In the art of the political revue, Jonathon Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott, are skilled practitioners. The setting for their new show, THE WHARF REVUE: DEBT DEFYING ACTS, is a circus, amusingly
Scandal not only sell papers…It also can also make for cutting edge, contemporary theatre.
Prominent Israeli playwright Edna Mazya’s play on a scandal GAMES IN THE BACKYARD, based on the gang rape on a 14 year old girl that took
“Beware the Ides of March” beseeches the soothsayer in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Hubris had the warning go unheeded and a political assassination ensued.
George Clooney’s latest producing/writing/directing/acting gig, THE IDES OF MARCH (M) is based on a play called FARRAGUT
Kit Brookman has written a clever and entertaining play that is performed well by the young actors in the cast. Through the use of simple and minimal props a sense of intimacy is created with the characters who share a
This is a riveting political thriller that had the audience listening intensely on the edge of their seats. It is an explosively powerful play looking at recent events (1988) in Malaysia that still has resonance today. It is also an
Not a Labor Party manifesto, rather WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (M) is an exquisitely realised adaptation of the novel by Lionel Shriver.
A captivating, creative, compelling and mesmerizing movie, Lynne Ramsay is totally on track to being the
The world that Australian playwright Sam Atwell portrays in his play BONDI DREAMING is a hostile, dark world where his characters survive on ‘make believe’.
Atwell’s scenario is a fictitious account of three young Australians, mates since childhood, Frankie, Charlie
There’s fewer than six degrees of separation between THE DEBT and the upcoming TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, to the point that the former could well have been called Tinker Tailor Soldier Zion.
Like the Le Carre title, THE DEBT is
The disturbing world that Ken Kesey depicted in this 1962 novel ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, now coming up to its 50th anniversary, is as vivid and haunting as ever in Ben Lenzo’s fine production for the Epicentre Theatre