Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

July 29, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Kings Cross Theatre, July 17 8/10 Behind the prosaic title lurks the odes and elegies of aging: ill-health, mortality, separation, loss and grief. American playwright Clare Barron’s You Got Older is essentially her autobiographical response to her father’s diagnosis with terminal cancer. If that doesn’t sound like much of a…

July 24, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Eternity Playhouse, July 11 7/10 The idea of “blue” conjures a different image in every mind. Is morality also plastic enough to be swirled together with other shades on a palette, or is it an absolute? Even if it exists as an absolute conceptually, what about in practice? Timothy Daley’s…

July 21, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Reginald Theatre, July 7 7/10 A brick makes a satisfying “clunk” as it slots into place in a wall being built. The Rolling Stone is like that wall, with British playwright Chris Urch slotting the parts of his plot together with similar precision. It is built with alternating layers of…