Riverside Theatre, January 17 6/10 Rather like that of an early Shakespeare comedy, the plot of Bran Nue Day spirals into ever greater silliness. To hold the audience, however, it needs to ride a mounting wave of joy – a joy that can’t be faked. You should feel it as…
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Bankstown Arts Centre, January 15 7/10 You could be forgiven for thinking the stage has become a soapbox, rather than being a surprising, sacred and profane space, where actors convey stories about the sad, weird, cruel, funny, compassionate, sexy, visionary and gripping ways in which humans interact. If a play’s…
Lennox Theatre, January 14 6.5/10 Danny’s revelation to his Lebanese-Australian family that he’s gay is met with fury and contempt – not just because it’s supposedly a “phase” or a “disease”, but because he dared to raise this just before his eight-month-old nephew’s christening. From this, the half-way mark in…