Roslyn Packer Theatre, August 23 5.5/10 How much Gothic can an innocent young city like Sydney, so absorbed in trains and whales, bear? In less than six months we’ve had Frame Narrative, Dracula, The Woman in Black and now Gaslight. On this night’s evidence, that’s one too many. Gaslight, you…
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Belvoir St Theatre, August 22 8/10 Christopher doesn’t do non-verbal communication. Nor does he do metaphors or lying – so he’s deeply suspicious of plays and acting. And he hates being touched so much that he instinctively lashes out at the offender. What he does do is maths and physics.…
Old Fitz Theatre, August 7 8/10 Playwright Gary Owen takes Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, pulls it up by the roots, poaches the characters in the story’s juice, and relocates it to an apple orchard in 1982 Thatcherite Wales. Unlike the Ensemble’s concurrent Uncle Vanya, Owen’s play is more “inspired by”…