Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

Playhouse, February 10 For all Dame Edna’s technicolour bravura and Sir Les’s slobbering buffoonery the most telling segment of a Barry Humphries show could often be Sandy Stone’s. Suddenly a cloud of wistful poignancy passed across the comedy. At the end of Max Gillies’ one-man show Once Were Leaders he…

Hayes Theatre, November 9 Mitchell Butel calls his new cabaret show Killing Time, a reference not to the bloody climaxes of action movies, but to that fourth dimension which counts down our lives until we bow out. Dour premise for a show, you might think, but Butel sprinkles it with…