Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

Concourse Theatre, September 9 The second instalment of David Williamson’s Jack Manning Trilogy ups the stakes. Where Face To Face dealt with workplace vendettas and gripes via the hyper-real depiction of community conferencing, the benignly-titled A Conversation seethes around a barbarous rape and murder. Containing the raging emotions this engenders…

Belvoir Downstairs, August 21  Director Adena Jacobs calls this “a meditation upon the myth of Oedipus Rex”. Not the Sophocles play of that name, you’ll note, but the myth that supplied Sophocles’ raw material. In a way she strips Oedipus of the trappings of his play, and re-mythologises him as…