O’Punksky’s Theatre Eternity Playhouse, April 8 Long? The Maus beside me was nearly screaming and my legs beneath me were screaming. Yes, at over three hours Tom Murphy’s The Gigli Concert is long by modern standards, but the frustration is with the fact that the play cries out for cutting.…
Category: Theatre Reviews
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, April 4 George Orwell may have been awry in the time placement of his vision of worldwide totalitarianism, and he may have been unable to foresee the technological “advancements” that would befall us, but his 1949 warning of a bleak future remains salutary. In fact…
Hayes Theatre, February 13 Musicals staged in small theatres have been rare beasts, but that is about to change. Two days after seeing Falsettos in the Eternity Playhouse, here was Sweet Charity launching a new permanent home for pocket productions of musicals in Sydney, the Hayes Theatre (previously Darlinghurst Theatre).…