Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

July 18, 2022 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Old Fitz Theatre, July 9 5.5/10 I don’t mind being bewildered (which is handy, given it’s my natural state), but here was a play that seemed somewhat bewildered about its own intent. Burn Witch Burn is not so much an adaptation of the 1962 horror film of that name (better…

July 14, 2022 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Kings Cross Theatre, June 29 6/10 They meet in the women’s toilet at a funeral. He’s snorting coke, and she’s surprised; he spins a yarn, and she’s intrigued. So begins the off-and-on, topsy-turvy and ultimately destructive relationship between George and Diana, the subject of this play by Jackson Used, here…

July 11, 2022 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Wharf 1 Theatre, June 30 7.5/10 Ultimately it’s a fairy tale, being replete with magic and a moral. But Michelle Law’s new play also mashes together genres like some people mash songs. Besides that fairy-tale element, it is variously a satire, a sitcom, a melodrama and a teen-style over-the-top comedy.…