Category: Theatre Reviews

August 30, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Wharf 1 Theatre, August 3 8/10 Your jaw drops before a word is said. Hanging from the flies is an otherworldly, golden, donut-shaped ceiling that could be made of sea sponge or brain matter. It looms low over the stage, with a pristine white dome in its centre and light…

August 25, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

  Ensemble Theatre, August 2 7/10 John Gaden makes his entry down the stairs of the dilapidated house owned by his character, the elderly Leo Bailey, oozing poison and malignancy from every pore. It’s now 20 years since playwright Debra Oswald created in Leo a character we like, despite all…

August 19, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Lennox Theatre, July 29 9/10 Camila Ponte Alvarez brings such vivacity to the role of Lucia as to make every line and spit and sizzle with humour, contempt, joy, angst and scheming calculation. Her eyes flash as her arms, hands and fingers continually trace acute angles in the air –…