Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

Ensemble Theatre, June 15 7/10 Edvard Munch’s most famous painting, The Scream, could be a depiction of Nora. She never actually emits that scream in fellow Norwegian Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (dating from 1879, 14 years earlier), but she’s screaming inside for most of its duration, and finally gives…

Sydney Lyric, May 26 8/10 Mary Poppins just clicks her fingers and another theatrical coup explodes upon the stage. You sit there smiling away as flats open into a house like a giant pop-up book, statues come to acrobatic life, Mary pulls improbably large items from her neat carpet bag,…