Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

November 1, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Ensemble Theatre, October 23 7.5/10 Sometimes just as you think you’ve failed to light a fire, it suddenly flares up. This production is like that. It flickers and hisses and fizzes for a while, and then the key kindling, desire and arousal, catch alight, and the play begins to burn.…

October 19, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Concert Hall, October 3 7/10 When Hair first hit Kings Cross in June, 1969, it gave the mainstream a glimpse behind the curtains of a counter-culture already nascent in Sydney. For the hippies, themselves, it was only a minor affirmation, although more immediate and real than Woodstock, half a world…

October 8, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Reginald Theatre, September 21 7.5/10 Only one of this play’s four men appears on stage. Two of the others, both called John, haunt the minds of Jenny, Elias and Genevieve. Mertis, alone, has a John-free psyche, and hers is partly occupied by George, a husband too sick to make an…