Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

June 17, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Wharf 1 Theatre, June 11 8/10 Little children suffer terror with minimal provocation. Dreams, sounds and shadows on the wall will do it, let alone hospitals, war and abduction. Alongside tidal waves of grief, families ripped asunder, all sense of home and belonging annulled and lives devastated beyond salvage, the…

June 10, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Belvoir St Theatre, May 29 6.5/10 Do we let hate go, or cling to it, and let it define us? Wars breed resentments that last for decades. Those spawned by occupations last for generations, and are renewed by each fresh atrocity and its reciprocation, as we witness in Palestine/Israel. Most…

June 4, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Hayes Theatre, May 28 9/10 Imagine watching a musical through a kaleidoscope, while the music splinters between genres. Imagine one that touches upon high art and popular culture like a butterfly flitting between flowers. (What other musical references both ABBA and Jean Genet?) Above all, imagine a musical that does…