Bella Vista Farm, December 21 7/10 Megan O’Connell’s Beatrice starts to win us from the moment she appears, when director Samantha Young has her kill a snake with a spade (the Sport for Jove production being set in 1890s Australia, cued by the gracious farmhouse adjoining the outdoor stage). O’Connell…
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Belvoir Downstairs Theatre, December 8 6/10 Playwright Lewis Treston wrote Hot Tub after dreaming of a helicopter lifting a hot tub on to the roof of a Surfers Paradise high-rise. The play, finally premiering after winning the 2016 Patrick White Playwright’s Award, unfolds more like a nightmare: not one of…
Ensemble Theatre, November 4 7/10 Barbara knows that one of the dumbest things governments have done is fail to champion music education. Making music improves our intellects, emotional acumen, general well-being and social cohesion. It’s also fun. That’s why Barbara formed a choir in rural Australia, and when that unravelled,…