Cultural Binge

Category: Drama

  • Stolen (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★½

    Stolen (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★½

    It is simply impossible to watch Stolen without a sense of sadness and rage brewing within you.

  • dog (KXT on Broadway) ★★★

    dog (KXT on Broadway) ★★★

    With little dialogue, and little plot driving the story, dog is not a comfortable watch.

  • POV (Belvoir 25a) ★★★★

    POV (Belvoir 25a) ★★★★

    The ever inventive re:group collective have arrived downstairs at Belvoir with POV, an experiment in blending theatre and documentary.

  • Never Closer (Belvoir) ★★★

    Never Closer (Belvoir) ★★★

    Sharp characters, tight plotting and witty dialogue combine to deliver an almost watertight script. This production, transplanted from Belvoir’s smaller 25a programme, gets a bigger budget to play with and the result is a crowd pleaser.

  • Death of a Salesman (Theatre Royal Sydney) ★★★★½

    Death of a Salesman (Theatre Royal Sydney) ★★★★½

    The great tragedy of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman isn’t how it ends, it’s the fact it is still appallingly relevant.

  • Switzerland (Ensemble Theatre) ★★★½

    Switzerland (Ensemble Theatre) ★★★½

    I can’t imagine the team at Ensemble Theatre knew that Netflix would drop its long anticipated ‘Ripley’, a new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ at the same time as they had programmed Joanna Murray-Smith’s play Switzerland but synchronicity is a wonderful thing.

  • London: The Plays (Part Two)

    London: The Plays (Part Two)

    Long Day’s Journey Into Night ★★★ / For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy ★★★★★ / Remembrance Monday ★★★ / Spirited Away ★★★1/2 This kind of variety is why I love London.

  • London: The Plays (Part One)

    London: The Plays (Part One)

    The Hills of California ★★★1/2 / Machinal ★★★★ / Minority Report ★★★ / People, Places and Things ★★★★★ I saw a wide variety of plays from big West End blockbusters to fringe two-handers. As always, more money and bigger names doesn’t always mean it’s a better show.

  • London: The Cine-theatre

    London: The Cine-theatre

    Stranger Things: The First Shadow ★★★★ / The Picture of Dorian Gray ★★★★★ / Opening Night ★★ / ABBA: Voyage ★★★★. The collision of technology and the stage is nothing new but across all the shows I saw in London, a few used the blend of cameras, screens and live performance better than others.

  • The President (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★

    The President (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★

    Olwen Fouéré and Hugo Weaving star as fascists on the verge of a nervous breakdown.