With their production ‘Gatz’, currently playing at the Sydney Opera House Playhouse, the New York Elevator Repair Service Theatre Company, pull off a wonderful theatrical experiment. In a marathon performance the Company put the whole of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic

Duncan Graham’s play ‘Ollie and the Minotaur’ tells an evocative reunion story of three female friends.

The time is 1992 and the setting is a beach house. Three women in their late twenties meet up. They are former lovers, the

Scottish playwright Antony Neilson’s play ‘The Wonderful World Of Dissocia’ tells a story about a young woman’s descent into madness. In the first part of the play we follow Justine Clarke who plays Lisa entering the world of Dissocia, and

Leading Aboriginal director Wesley Enoch and his team tackle an Australian theatre classic, Dorothy Hewitt’s 1979 play ‘The Man from Mukinupin’, with the score by Jim Cotter, in his current production upstairs at Belvoir Street theatre.

Hewitt’s play is set

Sarah Giles, a graduate of NIDA director’s program from last year, presented an impressive production of Peter Whelan’s intriguing 1997 play ‘The Herbal Bed’ at the New Theatre in Newtown.

Whelan’s play is based on a 1613 court case where

With his play ‘Ladybird’, young Russian playwright Vassily Sigarev takes us into the dark world of the young Russian underclass trying to make lives for themselves in the new Russia. Directed by Lee Lewis, ‘Ladybird is the first play of

This week’s play of the week is Mark Kilmurry’s fine production for the Ensemble Theatre of Mike Leigh’s 1977 play, ‘Abigail’s Party’.

A fair description of ‘Abigail’s Party’ is to describe it as a dinner party from hell. The title

There are many plays that struggle to have enough ‘fuel’ to convincingly get going let alone carry a full length work.

This is not the case with Tom Stoppard’s fertile 1974 play, ‘Travesties’. The play explores the unreliable memoirs of