Lennox Theatre, March 8 9/10 Margaret Edson has only written one play. She sent it to 60 companies before it was accepted, yet it won her the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Seldom has a work been more deserving, and seldom has a Sydney stage been graced by a…
Category: Theatre Reviews
Sydney Lyric Theatre, March 7 4/10 You know those restaurants that serve drinks matched to the food? Here, upon arrival, we received a complimentary drink perfectly matched to this musical: a frothy pink gin cocktail served in a plastic martini glass. Just as no self-respecting drinker would savour this, so…
The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House, March 6 7/10 The rude mechanicals’ play-within-play, Pyramus and Thisbe, can sometimes seem a lame coda to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Not here. Peter Evans’ Bell Shakespeare production ensures it crowns all the comedy that’s gone before. Even Quince’s prologue, so often laboured, skips from…