Sydney Lyric Theatre, April 21 8/10 Most people just see the stars, not the dark sky behind. They see the artists who become famous and wealthy beyond belief, feted and adored with sold-out tours, hit films and best-selling books, and think it must all be quite a lark. You get…
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SBW Stables Theatre, April 20 4.5/10 It’s like an elaborate children’s game: one that not only incorporates the video madness of modernity, but that looks back fondly to a gentler world of dolls’ houses and their inhabitants. Meanwhile it’s also some weird theatrical cousin of B-grade movies, and a step-sibling…
Drama Theatre, April 4 8.5/10 It builds like a storm. You see the cloud-front of abuse, disparagement and disrespect lining the horizon from the outset, gradually growing closer, darker and more intense, until the last 15 minutes of Joanna Murray- Smith’s play about Julia Gillard become an inevitability: the anti-misogyny…