Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

January 18, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

JOAN DIDION’S THE WHITE ALBUM

Roslyn Packer Theatre, January 8 7.5/10 When director Lars Jan of US theatre company Early Morning Opera opted to thrust the three dozen pages of Joan Didion’s The White Album on to a stage, the famed piece of prose could have been as uncomfortable a participant as an unwilling audience…

January 7, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

ROMEO AND JULIET

Bella Vista Farm, December 22 7.5/10 All the comedic pieces are in place, from skipping lightness to ribaldry, and there’s enchantment here galore: a keen sense of the play as a game, thanks to using teenaged actors to play teens. In fact Damien Ryan’s Sport for Jove production better serves…

December 20, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

THE SPLIT

Old 505 Theatre, December 5 4.5/10 At her best playwright Sarah Hamilton suspends time and place, so the two characters float in her play just as the little boat they occupy does in the water. Aided by Kobe Donaldson’s projections of sea and sky and the subliminal shimmer of Max…