So desperate was I to see IRONBOUND that I wheedled and cajoled An Assorted Few to let me attend a preview on the one night I have off this week. Letting reviewers into a preview is a huge leap of …
BAREBOARDS began as an initiative to provide members with additional acting opportunities, to view interesting work, get involved in smaller productions as techies, stage managers and to present their own works as writers and directors.
This year the program is…
Belvoir has announced the nine productions that will make up their 2019 season, launched at Belvoir St Theatre on Monday 3 September. To accomodate the interest in next year’s program Belvoir hosted two launches, first a subscribers launch and then …
Griffin Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare’s latest co-production, The Misanthrope, transposes Molière’s satire of ill-manners, hypocrisy, and prudishness, into contemporary Australian queer culture. It is a fun, funny frolick, in the vain of a mardigras float, and almost …
Late to the party. I was late to the swell party that is SHE LOVES ME at Hayes Theatre. Don’t make my mistake because this is a show for which reviewer words like elegant and accomplished were invented. Flag down …
People can come from such different ‘places’ – the way they live their lives, how they perceive the world and interact with those around them – that it keeps people separate even if they want to be together. That’s the …
THE MAIDS By Jean Genet (translation by Bernard Frechtman) – Downstairs Belvoir – Glitterbomb in association with 25A Belvoir
When Genet invested the time in his creation of the plotting maids, he was investing more in the idea of …
MINDING MADNESS: It is most often kept secret when children have a parent who is mentally ill; unfortunately, secrets increase loneliness and decrease visibility within our society.
MINDING MADNESS sets out to bring marginalised stories, of
children who have parents …
I cried. That’s it really. Except perhaps to add that the younger woman sitting in front of me did too, and the elder lady beside me was quietly mopping herself off as the house lights came up. THE SECRET SINGER …
“I’m Bobbie. As in Bobbie Dazzler, my Nan says, although I don’t know who that is. And this is my brother Hench. He’s got a face for radio.”
YEN poignantly explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the …