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.…
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Roslyn Packer Theatre, June 25 6/10 It was epically ambitious. Not only has playwright Emme Hoy condensed Anne Bronte’s 500-page novel down to less than three hours of drama, she had to resolve how to adapt Bronte’s quirky structure, whereby the book’s middle half is an elongated flashback in the…
Hayes Theatre, June 21 7.5/10 Were Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow alive today they’d just be two more narcissists taking selfies. Even Clyde’s obsession with high-powered firearms wouldn’t delineate him, especially in his home state of Texas. The conundrum that faced the creators of this 2009 musical (as it did…