Roslyn Packer Theatre, July 4 8.5/10 We all suffer from doubt. Even the politicians. They’ve just perfected hiding theirs behind a veneer of certainty. John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 Doubt makes most plays seem absurdly one-dimensional. It was true of Sydney Theatre Company’s 2006 staging, of Shanley’s 2008 film…
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Hayes Theatre, June 24, 8/10 Finally! Theatre that embraces the bizarre! It makes you realise how just mundane so much art of all stripes really is; how it sets about fulfilling expectations, rather than subverting them. House of Rot is Uber-theatrical, as it dances between Dada, theatre of the absurd…
Ensemble Theatre, June 23 6.5/10 “There’s a great liberty in being bad,” Sharon tells us, with all the zeal of the reformed do-gooder. She’s only come to mischief in her mid-50s, having “retired” from her marriage (preceded by her husband), and advertised for a housemate – or “roommate”. Sharon (Lucy…