Category: Drama
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The Mad Ones (Qtopia) ★★★½
You may already be familiar with Kerrigan & Lowdermilk’s coming-of-age musical The Mad Ones and just not know it.
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Toxic (Qtopia)
The rise and fall of a gay couple in Manchester threads its way through Britney Spears lyrics to its demise in Toxic.
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Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead (Belvoir) ★★★★
Have Belvoir bitten off more than they can chew?
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An Iliad (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★½
Small on sets but big on visuals.
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English (Seymour Centre) ★★★★
Sanaz Toossi’s play about a class of English students in Iran has a gentle touch.
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Sistren (Griffin) ★★★★★
Sistren is frenetic, original and addictively entertaining.
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Eden (Qtopia) ★★★★
Somehow an entire rural community comes to life inside the small space of Qtopia’s Substation theatre — and it’s all embodied by just two performers in Kate Gaul’s Eden.
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The River (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★
Jez Butterworth’s creepy cabin-in-the-woods emotional thriller, picks at the ghosts that haunt relationships and the toxic patterns we develop.
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Till The Stars Come Down (KXT) ★★★★
It’s not trying to break any rules or be too clever — it’s here to take the audience on a journey, and it does it beautifully.
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Femoid (Old Fitz Late) ★★★
Femoid wants to incite your rage about the “manosphere” but instead it elicits a feeling of inevitable sadness.