I have a favourite book in my library, American psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz’s highly acclaimed ‘The Examined Life : How We Lose and Find Ourselves’ which featured a number of case studies.
Sometimes in life we can lose ourselves, the truest, …
“Life is about authenticity
Recognising and honouring one’s own particular song
Getting in touch with that song
and singing it as well as one can”
Maria Schneider
I am a little hooked on one person shows in which people …
Ash is in the unenviable position of having an ageing mother needing care, a typically solipsistic teenage daughter, a husband who cannot grasp Ash’s despair, and an overachieving and needy best friend. Ash has always juggled these competing needs and …
Grab your finest heels and kick them up as Packemin Productions brings you a brand new production of KINKY BOOTS!
Winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, KINKY BOOTS features a joyous, Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper and …
Unlike most TV to stage adaptations, KEEPING UP APPEARANCES is not a stage version of episodes we have seen on the box, but a made for stage script, set at the local dramatic society, merging characters familiar from the series, …
Elaine Paton’s THROUGH THE CRACKS is a theatrical crime-style investigation that dives deep into issues of ageing, identity and homelessness, as Inspector Tilly leads an enquiry into the true-life disappearance of her alter ego, Elaine.
The audience enters the Incident …
British playwright Nick Payne’s 2012 play CONSTELLATIONS follows Roland, a beekeeper, and Marianne, a cosmologist, through their romantic relationship.
Both characters spend a lot of time talking about their work; at one point Roland talks about the sex life …
MERRIGONGX presents a new musical from creative duo Tom Hogan and Elana Stone. Mount Hopeless, 1 – 3 September, is a comedy rock opera based on the story of explorers Burke & Wills.
While often heralded as …
This show was brash in its depiction of multiple divergent contemporary subjects – random acts of violence, serial murders, guns, home decor, middle class aspirations, property prices, suburbia, homelessness – in a very hybrid style mixing stand up comedy and …