Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

July 5, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

 Kings Cross Theatre, June 20 7.5/10 In a note in the program the playwright Justin Fleming asks why various events in Dresden between 80 and 180 years ago might “reach” us in Sydney today. His answer is that “we live at a time when world leaders fuse fiction with fact”.…

July 1, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Eternity Playhouse, June 16 4.5/10 The French have a flair for lightness. It aerates their cooking, from choux pastry to souffle, their music from Offenbach to Satie, and even their very language, with all those silent consonants. And of course it is especially prevalent in their humour, from Voltaire to…

June 23, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Playhouse, June 12, until July 1 8/10 Assassins may be that rarity, a musical that’s still daring, edgy and innovative 28 years on, but it was instantly obvious that Bobby Fox’s fall when his character, Charles Guiteau, is hanged, was not scripted. David Campbell (playing the lead role of John…