Cultural Binge – independent theatre reviews from Sydney, Australia (mostly).
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Stolen (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★½
It is simply impossible to watch Stolen without a sense of sadness and rage brewing within you.
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Interview: Watershed’s Historical Consultant Tim Reeves & Co-Librettist Alana Valentine.
Tim Reeves, the show’s Historical Consultant, and playwright Alan Valentine, the show’s co-librettist, took some time out to help set the scene and answer some questions about the Adelaide Festival hit.
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Romeo & Juliet Suite (Sydney Opera House) ★★★★
“Specificity” is the first word that comes to mind after watching Benjamin Millepied’s Romeo & Juliet Suite. Specificity in the movement, intention, camera-work and even the way it uses the Sydney Opera House itself.
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dog (KXT on Broadway) ★★★
With little dialogue, and little plot driving the story, dog is not a comfortable watch.
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POV (Belvoir 25a) ★★★★
The ever inventive re:group collective have arrived downstairs at Belvoir with POV, an experiment in blending theatre and documentary.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Parade (Seymour Centre) ★★★½
There is a timeliness to director Mark Taylor’s new rendition of Parade that the creative team could not have anticipated when this went into production.
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London: The Musicals
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) ★★★★★ / Standing at the Sky’s Edge ★★★1/2 / Sister Act ★★★ / London Tide ★★1/2 I saw a bit of an odd-ball selection of musicals to be honest. Some were more experimental than others.
Cultural Binge 