Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

March 28, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Roslyn Packer Theatre, March 27 9.5/10 If part of the art of theatre is to put people in a vice and squeeze them until their thoughts are squished into their bodily juices, this was such a night. How often does your seat becomes a migration zone in which you inch…

March 28, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

The Playhouse, March 10, until April 7 4.5/10 Antony and Cleopatra is Shakespeare’s most opulent play in terms of both scale and language. Yet its challenging, operatic scope is also a graveyard for actors and directors. Unfortunately this production adds tombstones to that crowded cemetery for Evans (directing for Bell…

March 24, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Sydney Lyric Theatre, March 9 8/10 Had the creators Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone not called this The Book of Mormon, they could have called it Teeth. I remember those teeth when the Mormons came door-knocking in my childhood. They were as spectacularly white as their shirts, and…