Category: Theatre Reviews

November 14, 2023 / Theatre Reviews

The Playhouse, October 26 8/10 At the end of Twelfth Night, the “most notoriously abused” Malvolio says to the rest, “I’ll be revenged on the pack of you.” Director Heather Fairbairn’s take on the character is so different to your run-of-the-mill Malvolios that you rather wish Shakespeare had written a…

November 3, 2023 / Theatre Reviews

Lennox Theatre, October 21 6/10 Felicity Castagna’s racy novel about two teenaged girls behaving badly certainly has the makings of a movie, and perhaps a play – but this was not quite it. In adapting the book for the stage, Priscilla Jackman has lost some of the fizz and lightness…

October 23, 2023 / Theatre Reviews

Hayes Theatre, October 18 8.5/10 Is A Little Night Music the most timeless musical ever penned? Taking their cue from the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, about couples being naughty in 1900 Sweden, its creators, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, looked at hypocrisy with forgiving amusement; as…