Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

January 26, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Lennox Theatre, January 14 6.5/10 Danny’s revelation to his Lebanese-Australian family that he’s gay is met with fury and contempt – not just because it’s supposedly a “phase” or a “disease”, but because he dared to raise this just before his eight-month-old nephew’s christening. From this, the half-way mark in…

January 25, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Ensemble Theatre, January 9 6/10 “I like the idea of a room full of white people, all looking at me, all listening to what I say,” says Johnny Mullagh. “I would say, ‘Listen to my story. Listen to my people. And listen to your hearts.’” The real Mullagh may have…

January 18, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Roslyn Packer Theatre, January 8 7.5/10 When director Lars Jan of US theatre company Early Morning Opera opted to thrust the three dozen pages of Joan Didion’s The White Album on to a stage, the famed piece of prose could have been as uncomfortable a participant as an unwilling audience…