Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

September 24, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Roslyn Packer Theatre, September 9 8.5/10 A good production of The Importance of Being Earnest confirms that civilisation still exists. The barbarians may have vandalised art in favour of what they call popular culture, but if Oscar Wilde can still adorn our stages, the war’s not lost, and a difference…

September 20, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Old Fitz Theatre, September 8 9/10 They smear their make-up on before our eyes: smudged white and garish red, making faces that might have delighted in the guillotine during the French Revolution, hooting when another head plopped into the basket. Then they pull on the ragged clothes that constitute their…

September 17, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

York Theatre, September 5 6.5/10 In other countries they’d be lobbing Molotov cocktails, flipping cars and looting shops. But in Australia a beloved comedian gate-crashed history and lowered the collective blood-pressure on the day when we entered unchartered constitutional waters. Even as deposed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was assuring us…