Tag: Theatre
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Olivier Awards 2024 Winners mini-reviews
I was lucky enough to catch some of the eventual Olivier Award 2024 winners when I was in London last year. I’m putting some of my mini reviews of the winners here. These were all written in 2023.
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37 (Melbourne Theatre Company) ★★★
It’s short on nuance but big on short shorts – much like the game of AFL itself.
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The Hate Race (Malthouse) ★★★★
Zehra Newman hits it out the park with this funny, charming look at growing up Black in suburban Australia.
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Groundhog Day: The Musical (Princess Theatre) ★★★★★
This Australian production of Groundhog Day is the best the show has ever been, and that’s because of one brilliant performer… Elise McCann.
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The Lehman Trilogy (Theatre Royal) ★★★★★
No bankers were harmed in the making of this play.
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Grain in the Blood (KXT on Broadway) ★★★
What does it take to be the hero? How far would you go to save a life? It’s the age old question of can the ends ever justify the means?
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The Lewis Trilogy (Griffin) ★★★★1/2
This is glorious! By staging all three parts of Louis Nowra’s The Lewis Trilogy together, Griffin gives us a snapshot of the darker side of Australian lives lurking just under the laughs. Something about that feels quintessentially Griffin!
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Homos, or Everyone in America (New Theatre) ★★★
What makes gay relationships different to straight ones? Set around the peak time of the fight for marriage equality in the US, Homos, or Everyone in America looks at tug of war between hetero-normative coupling, polyamory and what life for a gay couple is like once things become equal.
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Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall (Ensemble) ★★★1/2
Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall isn’t the first play to derive comedy from a night at the theatre going wrong before your eyes, but it may be the first to do so with such a tender heart.
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A Raisin in the Sun ★★★★1/2
Written by Lorraine Hansberry. Sydney Theatre Company. 27 August – 15 October 2022. As the lights came up at the end of Sydney Theatre Company’s production of A Raisin in the Sun I was angry. My reaction to the Younger family was at odds with the play’s intentions. Pack of proud fools! I was mad…
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