Category: Theatre Reviews

April 3, 2016 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Wentworth Falls School of Arts, April 2 6.5/10 For all the ambition of Rowen Fox’s first full-length opera, the labour could not obscure the love. In the myth of the Chinese moon goddess Chang’E he has hit upon subject matter ideal for operatic interpretation. It provides a context for him…

February 14, 2016 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Roslyn Packer Theatre, February 5 9/10 Endless storytelling possibilities were open to playwright Andrew Bovell and director Neil Armfield in adapting Kate Grenville’s novel for the stage. By opting for a profound sense of ritual, intermingled with stylised theatricality and laced with enchantment, they arrived at a deeper, more poetic…

February 13, 2016 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Drama Theatre, February 12 8.5/10 Let the rain fall on your windscreen with the wipers off and watch randomness with which some droplets merge into a trickle that commandeers other droplets and hurtles ever faster to its doom. What if that process were not random? What if there were a…