A young Simon Burke saw the poster for Nimrod Theatre Company’s The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin, showing a young boy smoking a cigarette, and wondered why he hadn’t been cast in the role. After all, he’d recently done Nimrod’s Kookaburra with The Elocution’s director, Richard Wherrett, and had since been…
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Roslyn Packer Theatre, February 19 8/10 Imagine if where you are reading this review was just white space. No words. What if, rather than missing words, the white space constituted a work of visual art? Nothingness would be just as valid as much else that passes for art, after all.…
Drama Theatre, February 12 8/10 “Whoever thought you’d die from having sex?” asks Felix late in this play. AIDS has killed about seven times more people than COVID, behind which statistic lie value judgements made by governments, pharmaceutical companies, religious organisations, the medical profession and perhaps the public at large.…