short+sweet theatre top 80 week one

There are eight simply superb plays being performed live on stage this week, at Short and Sweet. Top 80 Week One, Thursday 1st February 2018 until Sunday.  Captivating drama, strange circumstances, unique outlooks, and laugh-out-loud entertainment galore.…

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wild bore: what are we game to say?

WILD BORE playing as part of The Sydney Festival at Carriageworks has some very clever design and tech.

Beginning with 3 superbly sewn pants.  My favourite was the plaid, checked ones.  Were those straight lines in the black fabric green?  …

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mother: the pride stripped bare.

A half lit, twilight world of smoke, seagull squawk, dried leaves and garbage bags, the audience is bidden to a modern day midden by set designer Kat Chan. This is the habitat of Christie, a woman top of the …

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sorting out rachel: deceptively domestic

In her program notes, Director Nadia Tass references the careful balance that Playwright David Williamson creates between gravity and humour.  With that in mind, SORTING OUT RACHEL at the Ensemble Theatre is a play somewhat of your own making.  On …

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sarah snook: saint joan for stc

Sarah Snook ( banner image  from Jessabelle 2014)

Acclaimed Australian actress Sarah Snook has been announced in the title role of Saint Joan in the Sydney Theatre Company production directed by STC Resident Director Imara Savage at the Roslyn Packer …

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nautilus is a ten: how will you score?

It is simply not going to pass with the editor if this is a one-sentence review.  Like …

You really should see Trygve Wakenshaw’s NAUTILUS playing as part of the Sydney festival because it is hilarious, clever, artful and probably
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