Category: Theatre Reviews

December 20, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

SBW Stables Theatre, December 7 6/10 Is it a play? Is it a duologue? Is it stand-up comedy? No, it’s a hybrid: part play, part anecdote of the type where two raconteurs keep interrupting each other to tell you what really happened. Devised and performed by Phil Spencer and Susie…

December 1, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Roslyn Packer Theatre, November 15 8/10 That ideological curiosity, Gerard Henderson, used the inimitable John Clarke’s Tory lampooning as further proof of the ABC’s heinous pinko bias. He apparently failed to understand that satirizing people who want a more open and generous world isn’t nearly as funny as poking fun…

November 24, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Drama Theatre, November 9 7.5/10 Patrick White led Australian playwrights to a crossroads: the stultifying dead-end of naturalism, or the boundless possibilities of rampant theatricality. The latter offered dreams and fancies painted in surreal extravaganzas, and people’s internal and external worlds mingling like mismatched guests at a cocktail party. Alas,…