Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

September 5, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Joan Sutherland Theatre, August 20 7/10 Art that causes a stir at birth tends to retain some vestige of that initial shock of the new. When West Side Story, which kills off three of its leads, depicts a rape and includes extra-marital sex, hit Broadway 62 years ago, a steamy…

August 26, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Kings Cross Theatre, August 8 7/10 There’s this dead cat, you see. Well, not only dead, but skinned – and yet it still knows how to have a good time. We humans are certainly amateurs compared with cats when it comes to pleasure, and Jen Silverman’s play is about an…

August 24, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Belvoir St, August 7 6/10 Ignorance is an avalanche; science a snow-plough trying to bulldoze through it to a less ignorant future. So it was in Galileo’s time (1564-1642), and so it is today. Some of the fruits of Galileo’s genius were temporarily stymied by Catholicism, which feared the rug…