Theatre Royal, October 9 7/10 Nostalgia is more usually triggered by a smell, a song or a book than by a play. But, uniquely with The Mousetrap, a creeping sense of nostalgia is almost as important as the impact of the story, characters and performances – and that’s regardless of…
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Old Fitz Theatre, September 18 5/10 At one point the playwright appears on a screen admonishing the screenwriting characters to stay well away from the story they are attempting to pen. It would be easy to say they should have heeded this advice, but there’s the slightest hint of the…
Ensemble Theatre, September 7 8/10 It’s a tragedy spiralling in tandem with “what if?” questions. Anna Ziegler’s 2008 play, here having its Australian premiere, provides a fictionalised account of the malfunctioning relationships that resulted in Rosalind Franklin, who died at 37 of ovarian cancer, not posthumously sharing in one of…