Category: Theatre Reviews

July 14, 2024 / Theatre Reviews

Roslyn Packer Theatre, July 6 7.5/10 Sometimes the images are laid atop one another, like so many memories clamouring for focus in a brain. Sometimes the visual effect is wondrous, as when the characters of Holmwood, Morris and Van Helsing seem real rather than on a screen as they converse…

July 8, 2024 / Theatre Reviews

Theatre Royal, June 30 8/10 More than any other Neil Simon play, The Odd Couple has passed into folklore. Given that it clocked up nearly 1,000 performances in its initial mid-’60s Broadway run, spawned a hit film (with Walther Matthau and Jack Lemmon), a TV series in the 1970s, and…

July 2, 2024 / Theatre Reviews

The Neilson Nutshell, June 20 4/10 There is no greater play than King Lear. None is more disturbing, nor more moving, and no other Shakespeare work possesses so many characters of note. No role approaches the emotional breadth and height of Lear, nor his apocalyptic and hallucinogenic imagery. Even Othello…