Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

April 11, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Belvoir St Theatre, March 24 9/10 Excellence costs. A nine-year-old piano virtuoso might never know the joy of childhood friendships, and many a family has been neglected by a brilliant parent. What of the brilliant foreign correspondent? What might be the cost there? Sally Sara has routinely been that person…

April 10, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Old Fitz Theatre, March 21 5.5/10 Finally returning to the Old Fitz held a particular joy, as if this tight little crucible is the canary in the Sydney theatre coalmine, and all’s well when it’s on the wing. This feeling was compounded when, upon entering the theatre proper, we seemed…

April 3, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Roslyn Packer Theatre, March 20 8.5/10 Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ferocious play ends with decay. The “romantic” plantation mansion in Arkansas we have shared with nine characters for nearly three hours begins to disintegrate in a string of fleeting scenes, rather like stop-frame photography. It’s as if the house, itself, is diseased,…