Roslyn Packer Theatre, January 4 7.5/10 This, I promise you, is like nothing you have seen. An ancient Greek tragedy is fused with an ongoing global calamity in Brazil to create Antigone in the Amazon. Mythology and reality, it tells us, are one and the same. The civil war that…
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Bella Vista Farm, December 21 7/10 Megan O’Connell’s Beatrice starts to win us from the moment she appears, when director Samantha Young has her kill a snake with a spade (the Sport for Jove production being set in 1890s Australia, cued by the gracious farmhouse adjoining the outdoor stage). O’Connell…
Belvoir Downstairs Theatre, December 8 6/10 Playwright Lewis Treston wrote Hot Tub after dreaming of a helicopter lifting a hot tub on to the roof of a Surfers Paradise high-rise. The play, finally premiering after winning the 2016 Patrick White Playwright’s Award, unfolds more like a nightmare: not one of…