Category: Features

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…

June 12, 2025 / Features

Last year, one play rattled my bones like no other: Sport for Jove’s production of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. My five-star review enthused that it had “a truth, an energy and a ferocity to make the blood drain from your face”, and a “visceral, raw, compelling and moving” performance from…

May 11, 2025 / Features

When the celebrated actor Pamela Rabe was first approached to play Winnie, the central character in Samuel Beckett’s play Happy Days, she had to think about it. Winnie, you see, is not for the faint-hearted. Buried up to her waist in the first act and up to her neck in…