SBW Stables Theatre, September 11 The radio news on the way to the theatre, crammed with domestic violence and familial murders, was like a background briefing for the play. Anna Barnes’ fresh take on the story of Electra (familiarity with which is recommended) seeks to have bells of resonance clanging…
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Eternity Playhouse, September 9 Humans have a wondrous capacity for lying to themselves as well as to others. Director Anthony Skuse production for Darlinghurst Theatre Co unites two of Jane Bodie’s one-act plays, Ride and Fourplay, in which relationships are in ephemeral states, with honesty the first casualty. In Ride…
Joan Sutherland Theatre, September 8 My immediate neighbour’s response – slumbering tenaciously through Act One and then leaving – was harsh. Perhaps she was at High Society the night before and found two Cole Porter musicals in two nights somewhere between one and two too many, although Anything Goes has…