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Shitty (Belvoir 25a) ★★★★
What’s more horrific than turning 30 and looking for love?
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Mardi Gras Film Festival 2024 (Updating)
This year I’m reviewing films at the Mardi Gras Film Festival 2024 for The Queer Review, so I’ve created a page to collate all the coverage (including reviews and interviews for films screening at the festival). I’ve sorted the reviews into star order so you can clearly see which films The Queer Review recommends. This…
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The Inheritance, Parts 1 & 2 (Forty Five Downstairs) ★★★★
The Inheritance, is a sprawling epic, very loosely based on EM Forster’s Howards End. It was lauded in London, but dismissed on Broadway, in Melbourne it’s back to being adored once more.
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Ruff Trade (The Motley Bauhaus) ★★★1/2
Ruff Trade starts off as a sex comedy about a 16th century male sex worker and unexpectedly ends up being a bitter tragedy. Strangely the heel-turn works, making for a satisfying, and gleefully historically inaccurate, short play.
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Sauna Boy (The Motley Bauhaus) ★★★1/2
Ever wondered what life is like for the people who work behind-the-scenes in a gay sauna? Dan Ireland-Reeves’s Sauna Boy has your answers.
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Iago (Cracked Actors Theatre) ★★★
Much like an actual character, there are the things Hackett’s Iago says it is, things it wants to be and the things that it actually is.
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Rizo: Prizmatism (Wharf 1 Theatre) ★★★★
Rizo, the New York based 70s-rocker-meets-50s-chanteuse-filtered-through-a-00s-drag-diva-turned-yoga-instructor, hits middle-age and the Sydney Festival with her new show Prizmatism, offering an antidote to the isolation of the last few years and a respite from the news of today.
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GöteborgsOperans Danskompani (Roslyn Packer) ★★★★
GöteborgsOperans Danskompani are renowned and these two works make it clear why. Both fun and form-breaking, this is exciting contemporary dance to watch.
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Overflow (Darlinghurst Theatre Co) ★★★★★
The bottom line is, yes, Overflow is as good as everyone says it is, go see it!
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Alma Zygier: Premarital Sextet (Wharf 1 Theatre) ★★★★
Stepping away from the more theatrical side of Sydney Festival, I spent an early afternoon listening to Melbourian jazz singer Alma Zygier and her band reinterpret jazz classics with gusto in the Wharf 1 Theatre.
Cultural Binge - Independent Theatre Reviews 