Reviews

Review: The Odd Couple

Pulitzer prize winner Neil Simon’s play The Odd Couple was the precursor to the beloved ‘70s TV show. While I…

9 years ago

Review: Afterplay – intimate and intellectual

An homage to Chekhov, Afterplay is a two-hander play in which the characters are taken from two different Chekhov plays…

9 years ago

The Melbourne Monologues

Now in their 34th year, Melbourne Writers’ Theatre continue their mission to foster and showcase new and established Australian writing talent…

9 years ago

Melbourne Festival: Masquerade

Kate Mulvany’s gorgeous adaption of Kit Williams's picture book Masquerade celebrates why picture books and stories are so important to…

9 years ago

Mortido at The State Theatre Company of South Australia

There isn’t any sense in which this play could be called (in Mrs Everage’s words), a “nice night’s entertainment”. It’s…

9 years ago

Melbourne Festival: Desdemona

The Melbourne Festival production of Peter Sellars Desdemona sold out. With reactions ranging from  "tedious" – there were walk outs and some…

9 years ago

Rent – Hayes Theatre Co

Jonathan Larson’s Rent originally premiered Off Broadway in 1996. Inspired by Puccini’s La Boheme, set in New York City’s East…

9 years ago

OzAsia Festival: Dear John

In a festival full of big ideas and abstract concepts, Dear John is deceptively simple. At first, the audience struggles…

9 years ago

Melbourne Festival: The Bacchae

I didn't take my eyes off the stage and am still trying to fully understand the astonishingly beautiful, often disturbing…

9 years ago

Brink Production’s The Aspirations of Daise Morrow

From the first oozings over the audience chatter, of the live music from the very accomplished Zephyr Quartet, to the…

9 years ago