There’s flexing your acting muscles and then there’s the kind of “acting-maxxing” on display in Catch as Catch Can.

An indictment of the modern hyper-optimising mentality, and of insecure young men desperately trying to prove their superiority through violence.

Above the uneven material, floats a cast of gorgeous voices.

Who in Sydney HASN’T seen it already? And is it worth seeing again?

A spiritual successor to 2023’s endlessly inventive The Master & Margarita, just with a lighter touch.

I’ll be the first to say it: #ElsaWasRight.

The audience soon discovers that the threads of Ben’s life reach us in a random order.

Waves of panic, waves of nausea, waves of feminism — they’re all locked in the confined space of The Elevator.

It’s the performances, under Kim Hardwick’s direction, that give Dixon & Daughters its life.

With a performer like Justine Clarke in the lead, you simply can’t lose.