Category: Theatre Reviews

March 12, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

The Playhouse, March 5 8.5/10 There are glimpses of greatness here. In making his professional stage debut, JK Kazzi does not just perform Shakespeare, he tackles this play’s epic title role. Plucky. While his performance is flawed, when he spears the part, he humanises Henry and lifts him far above…

February 27, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Drama Theatre, February 21 6.5/10 Joan Lindsay’s fantastical 1967 novel told of colonial Australians trying to tame a land they didn’t understand, and which therefore seemed hostile. Two schoolgirls – a charismatic and a swot – invaded Hanging Rock with a stitched-up teacher and were consumed: unknowing sacrifices to an…

February 23, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Belvoir St Theatre, February 19 7/10 What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done, by yourself or as part of a collective? Can you say it out loud? Does anyone else know? Do you resent them for knowing? Will you ever forget this thing you did? Can you ever forgive yourself?…