Bella Vista Farm, December 18 7.5/10 Shakespeare didn’t specify fruit bats in his stage directions, and, while director Damien Ryan can do many things, I suspect he draws the line at bat wrangling, so presumably they invited themselves to add a layer of sylvan authenticity to the Forest of Arden.…
Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive
Roslyn Packer Theatre, December 8 Until December 22 8/10 Arthur Miller toyed with calling his great play The Inside of His Head, and, where some productions reduce the work’s suppurating theatricality to base naturalism, Paige Rattray’s Sydney Theatre Company version forces us to soil our hands in the contents of…
Belvoir St Theatre, November 24 6/10 Imagine an Australia where the Aboriginal people are fully respected, the refugees are welcomed and integrated, neither gender nor sexuality is pigeonholed or judged, and the community collectively fights off rapaciousness. No, fair enough. Neither can I. Well, how about a bit of Australia.…