Sydney playwright Amber Spooner has chosen a tricky subject for her first play. The play tells the story of Grace, a woman who was kidnapped as a young girl, spent years in captivity, and then escapes, returning to her family.…
The mid to late 19th Century was a tumultuous time in male/female relations. The literature of the time reflected this. It is said that bedroom doors around Europe shook when Nora left her husband Torvald in Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s …
ONCE is a story about a guy and a girl who connect through music. The audience can connect with the story as it is real, touches us with its humanity, and is enlivened by wonderful singing, highly skilful musicians and …
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Punch drunk on polemic and drab rather than dab with the jab of drama, and the crisp uppercut of comedy, Theatre Travels’ production of THE SWEET SCIENCE OF BRUISING is on the ropes early due …
It is endlessly fascinating where writers get their ideas from and where they take them. Recently I saw a play ‘The Female Of The Species’ written by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith which was inspired by an incident that happened …
American writer Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew over The Cuckoo’s Nest was published in 1962. The play adaptation, written by Dale Wasserman, was first performed in 1963. The legendary movie directed by Milos Forman won five Academy Awards, including best …
It seems that no musical can open without the words the musical added on to the title. At the Hayes Theatre we had the adventurous American Psycho The Musical, we currently have the superb Mary Poppins The Musical and what …
Q. Drew, you were trapped on board a cruise ship for two months at the height of Covid. Were you one of the entertainers on the cruise? This must have been a harrowing experience. And yet you made a hilarious …
Planes fly over their Marrickville apartment as Sam and Jess argue, for the hundredth time, about whose turn it is to take the bins out. While they still love one another, it’s clear they are in a rut. After …
Prominent Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith is best known for her intense relationship and family dramas. THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES, which premiered in 2006 at the Melbourne Theatre Company, is high comedy. There is nothing deep and meaningful to …