Category: Theatre Reviews

September 17, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Ensemble Theatre, September 10 6/10 The last five minutes pin your ears back, leaving you wondering why more of the play didn’t bristle with this intensity; this sense of lives being defined or wasted. Perhaps the curious detachment we feel for most of the 90 minutes may be attributed to…

September 8, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

PACT Theatre, September 4 7/10 The title is metaphorical. It does not refer to the voices that Joan of Arc believed came to her from her god, but to the multifarious ways her bold stance against a cruel and morally bankrupt patriarchy rattled the bones of history. Although not the…

August 30, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Roslyn Packer Theatre, August 23 5.5/10 How much Gothic can an innocent young city like Sydney, so absorbed in trains and whales, bear? In less than six months we’ve had Frame Narrative, Dracula, The Woman in Black and now Gaslight. On this night’s evidence, that’s one too many. Gaslight, you…