Category: Theatre Reviews

Blue Mountains Theatre, August 25 7/10 We’re slow learners. For decades our worst bushfires have been declared “unprecedented”, the unmistakable trend being that they’re worsening. Hence the title of Campion Decent’s new play (following his related 2008 work Embers). Since 1939, he tells us, there have been 57 official fire-related…

  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…