Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

March 8, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

The Wharf, February 26 8/10 It has to permeate the words, the voices and the very air. If it does, the magic will permeate us, too. More than the lovable characters, gripping story-telling and the sense of place so profound that you can smell it, Ruth Park’s 1980 novel for…

March 5, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Hayes Theatre, February 24 7/10 Young Frankenstein is like a rickety slatted bridge, with hilarity the destination and the bottomless abyss of inanity always lurking beneath. Time and time again, a slat breaks, we plunge into silliness, and claw for a grip on the bridge of laughs. Anyone who enjoyed…

February 22, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Flight Path Theatre, February 4 7.5/10 Had Sam Shepard been a boxer, he may well have fvoured removing the gloves. His writing has a rawness seldom matched in drama, so words become weapons that open wounds old and new, while his characters are bruised and scarred by each other and…