Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

August 27, 2015 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Sydney Lyric, August 20 We all know the best children’s books engage parents as well, and Roald Dahl was the master of this. The miracle of Matilda the Musical is not that it offers burp jokes and mock horror to transfix the young and shrewder entertainment for adults, but that…

August 20, 2015 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Raffertys Theatre, August 13 Bob Kingdom’s one man show about one of the greatest poets since Shakespeare never directly addresses the reasons for the self-destructiveness that saw Dylan Thomas dead at 39. But Kingdom’s text is largely drawn from the man’s writings, and for Thomas to analyse in prose or…

August 19, 2015 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Hayes Theatre, August 12 Besides being a master class in how to act, sing, interpret and create, Terence McNally’s splendid vision of an aging Maria Callas offers a swift doctorate in sarcasm, scorn, resentment and venom. But then, as she says at the end, “If I have seemed harsh, it…