Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

October 9, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Belvoir St Theatre, September 16 9/10 Virginia Woolf got one thing wrong. Near the end of A Room of One’s Own, her incandescent 1929 polemic on women’s place in the corporeal and literary patriarchies, she writes, “Much of what I have said will seem out of date.” On the contrary,…

October 3, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

New Theatre, September 9 6/10 Ana jumped in front of the speeding train called life, and was buffeted down the tracks for the next 80 years. Her stoicism, humour, resilience and courage light up Neighbourhood Watch more than her grudges and stubbornness cloud it, so she emerges as something of…

August 19, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

El Rocco Theatre, July 24 7/10 Someone had to go first and, four months after the lights went off, live theatre returned to Sydney. The sense of anticipation before this show was a bit like the crackling electricity of going to the theatre as a child: here were real, in-the-flesh…