Monthly Archives: June, 2019

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Theatre Now Sydney Review: Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Kate's Score: 4 meat pies We begin with a séance. And it is a brilliant, clever concept from director Theresa Borg. The Victorians of Britain had...

Theatre Now Sydney Review: 30 Years of Sixty Five Thousand [Bangarra]

Lynden's Score: 4.5 stars 30 Years of Sixty Five Thousand celebrates Bangarra's 30th anniversary, highlighting old and new (for Bangarra) pieces. Act one, Unaipon is a...

On The Screen Review: All My Sons

Con's Score: 4 White Pickets Arthur Miller’s script gets the National Theatre Live treatment at the Old Vic with a stellar cast crossing the Atlantic for...

Hot Off the Page: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

This has spoilers. I remember watching Pink Floyd's The Wall for the first time. At home (waaay back when I still lived with family) on...

Theatre Now Sydney Review: Gloria

Mark's Score 5 stars I am not familiar with the works of Branden Jacobs - Jenkins, the 35-year-old American playwright who seems to have made...

Theatre Now Sydney Review: The Cherry Orchard

Kate's Score: 2.5 Chekhovian Guns Anton Chekhov (or Chekov) offered in The Cherry Orchard, his last play, a picture of the Russian landowning class in...

Theatre Now Sydney Review: Mercury Fur

Fiona's Score: 3.5 Stars Drugs, sex, violence, nihilism, fantasy, memory and story-telling make for an unforgettable night in Phillip Ridley’s seminal play Mercury Fur. It...

Theatre Now Sydney Review: Collaborators

Liz's Score: 3.5 Stars The New Theatre opened its doors in 1932 as the Sydney Workers Art Club with the slogan “Art is a Weapon”. ...

Theatre Now Sydney Review: Normal

Mark's Score: 4 stars The springboard for Katie Pollock’s new play is that of a curious incident that began in August 2011 in a small...

On Sounds Review: The Spooky Men’s Chorale

Kate's Score: 5 Freddy Mercurys There is no darkening of lights. A man wanders, hesitantly, on stage. He is followed by others at different paces....