Category: Theatre Reviews

June 16, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Roslyn Packer Theatre, May 27 7/10 How to die? With grace? Rare. With dignity? Rarer. And attempting it with courage or good humour may fall short of the intent – regret being more likely. Playwright Patricia Cornelius wonders aloud about how we all die in Do Not Go Gentle, taking…

June 5, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Ensemble Theatre, May 19 8.5/10 Never did Tennessee Williams creep so close to the Gothic horror of Edgar Allan Poe as in 1957’s Suddenly Last Summer. Never was his imagery so confronting. White is the recurrent colour: not an innocent white, but a malevolent one. The Spanish sun, Catharine tells…

May 31, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Theatre Royal, May 18 7/10 Damp dynamite can be slow to ignite, but still goes off with a bang in the end. This show spent most of its time meandering like a riverboat around the twists and turns of Tina Turner’s childhood (with a loveless mother), and her marriage to…