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A Christmas Carol ★★★1/2
Based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Adapted by Hilary Bell. World Premiere Ensemble Theatre Nov 25 – Dec 29, 2022. Christmas has come to Ensemble Theatre and a classic is being revisited with an air of freshness I wasn’t expecting. Australian legend John Bell leads a troupe of performers in retelling Charles Dickens’…
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RBG: Of Many, One. ★★★★
Written by Suzie Miller. World Premiere. Sydney Theatre Company. Oct 29 – Dec 17, 2022. There is a calculation to Suzie Miller’s new play, RBG: Of Many, One, now playing at Sydney Theatre Company. The calculation of a very intelligent woman (far more intelligent than I) looking ahead to the next step. This exploration of…
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The Lovers ★★★★
Based on A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare. Writer, composer Laura Murphy. Bell Shakespeare company Oct 23 – Nov 20, 2022. Have you ever seen a show that is a hair’s-breathe close to being just perfect? The Lovers by Bell Shakespeare is so close to being a bona-fide five star slam-dunk I can taste…
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Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella ★★★
Music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II. Book by Douglas Carter Beane. Sydney Lyric till Jan 22, 2023 Oh, can we just not?! Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing particularly bad about Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, it’s just utterly, resolutely average. And it clearly cost a lot of money to make something…
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The Italians ★★★★
Written by Danny Ball. Belvoir St Theatre Downstairs. Oct 23 – Nov 6, 2022. Read my review of The Italians at The Queer Review.
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Australian Theatre Live
The streaming theatre scene is still pretty young, and the vast majority of productions appear on our stages to never be seen again. Now Australian Theatre Live has launched a streaming service, giving everyone access to their library of 18 shows (and growing) that includes some Australian classics – it’s only the beginning and it’s…
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The Caretaker ★★★★1/2
Written by Harold Pinter. Ensemble Theatre. 14 Oct – 19 Nov, 2022. There’s something about watching actors who are so intensely “in the moment”… It’s mesmerising. Actors who, even when they aren’t speaking, are so invested, embodying their role so completely, they are watchable at all times. And in The Caretaker at Ensemble Theatre you…
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Interview: Iain Sinclair, director of The Caretaker at Ensemble Theatre
Iain Sinclair, the acclaimed director whose production of Harold Pinter’s classic The Caretaker opens at Ensemble Theatre tonight, took some time out from rehearsals to have a frank and informative chat (via email) about the timelessness of Pinter’s work, the critics, how the Ensemble Theatre itself alters how you approach a play and why you,…
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End Of. ★★★1/2
Written by Ash Flanders. Griffin Theatre Company. Oct 13 – Nov 5, 2022 Read my review of Ash Flanders’ End Of. at The Queer Review.
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Past The Shallows ★★★★
Written by Julian Larnach, based on the novel by Favel Parrett. Australian Theatre for Young People / Archipelago Productions, Sydney. 12 Oct – 9 Nov, 2022. Past The Shallows plays like an ever-shifting dream, as three actors take on multiple roles to tell the story of a broken Tasmanian family. The narrative is like the…
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