John Shand Posts

July 28, 2025 / Features

David Williamson’s first memory is of Sydney. At three-and-a-half, the Melbourne born-and-bred playwright was visiting an uncle with his family, and remembers “sitting in a backyard on a very bright, sunny day, surrounded by bougainvilleas and subtropical flowers,” he says via Zoom from Provence, where’s he’s holidaying. “The fact my…

July 25, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Carriageworks, July 19 8/10 There’s no Hedwig and the Angry Inch without a star. No, not just a star: a supernova. iOTA first burst into our lives playing Hedwig, and 19 years later it’s Seann Miley Moore’s turn to dazzle us. Hedwig is role in which performers can unleash their…

July 24, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Wharf 1 Theatre, July 17 7/10 Annie Baker can make a play out of minimal words and minuscule gestures. The effect borders on shock because we’re so used to huge emotions with titanic consequences. You have to readjust; put your antennae on higher alert. Baker wrote two of this century’s…