Old Fitz Theatre, July 12 6.5/10 Like a single parent and a teenager sharing a cupboard-sized flat, this is two clashing plays trying to inhabit the same stage. British playwright Martin Crimp’s wrote it following the 1986 unsolved disappearance of young London estate agent Suzy Lamplugh, presumed murdered. But he…
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Time Is Moved (ABC/Ten Part Invention) 8/10 Somone’s been tinkering under the bonnet of the band I once called the Rolls Royce of Australian jazz. With a few spark plugs changed, it’s purring again – and roaring when the accelerator’s depressed. In the 20 years since Sydney’s 10-piece Ten Part…
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…