Playhouse, Sydney Opera House, March 11 7.5/10 Julius Caesar was my childhood pathway into Shakespeare: a heady mix of history and gripping verse. I skated over the curious plotting: not so much that the titular character’s dead – if not quite gone – by half way, but that this vacuum’s…
Category: Theatre Reviews
Flight Path Theatre, March 5 6.5/10 A golden moment comes in the first scene of Act IV, when Jade Fuda’s Rosalind (disguised as the youth Ganymede), asks Pat Mandziy’s Orlando what he would say to her, were she his Rosalind. “I would kiss before I spoke,” he replies, and Fuda…
Belvoir Downstairs Theatre, February 26 8/10 At the risk of revealing I’m over 21, I saw Gordon Chater’s unforgettable 1976 performance as Robert O’Brien in this one-actor play’s premiere season, in those heady days that confirmed Australian plays, acting and production could be world-class. It toured Australia, had acclaimed West…