Belvoir St Theatre, February 3 9/10 It’s desperately sad, fierce, funny, intoxicating and confronting. In other words, Tiny Beautiful Things is desperately full of life. Cheryl Strayed’s book of this name was improbable fodder for a play, and remains so, despite Nia Vardalos’s expert adaptation, and director Lee Lewis having…
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Ensemble Theatre, January 31 8.5/10 This is rare: a play that has a beating heart as big as a hug from your mum, and yet is not even slightly mawkish. Even rarer, it has that heart, and yet is about the skull-splintering game of rugby union. Rarer still, it’s the…
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, January 19 8/10 An audience address becomes a play without you noticing. But then Javaad Alipoor’s work questions the nature of a play, just as it questions the internet’s deception that everything can be known; questions how a refugee pop star becomes a murder victim;…