This is acting at its highest and best
Another absolute treat in our local performing art production scene
You can always rely on a Red Phoenix play to entertain - It is truly a black comedy not to be missed
Another brilliant production from Red Phoenix now playing at Holden Street Theatres
Engaging and outstanding local production of an international courtroom drama.
A disturbing but extremely well executed piece of theatre
Presented by Red Phoenix Theatre & Holden Street Theatres Reviewed: October 21st 2021 On the evening of the 6th of October 1998 when Matthew Shepard, an openly gay man, was abducted, cruelly bashed and left for dead tied to a fence just outside of Laramie, in Albany County Wyoming, the world was changed. The Laramie […]
Promising playwright Jessica Swale’s excellent script is set in Cambridge and Girton College in 1896-7, when girls were meant to marry and become domesticated and not use their clearly inferior brains.
With COVID restrictions making economically-viable live theatre difficult, Red Phoenix and Holden Street have come up with an ingenious solution.
You can always rely on Red Phoenix to give you an interesting night out in the theatre. Dividing the Estate is a richly written piece of American drama by Horton Foote.
Director Robert Kimber has said the theme of the play can be encapsulated in the idea of ‘moving on’ but at the same time we can never know where the next journey may take us. Time is of the essence in the play as is the existential question of time being seen subjectively by each of us.
Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus) was the third Emperor of the Roman Empire known for supposedly sleeping with all his sisters, executing landowners to take control of their lands, closing granaries to cause starvation and taking the wives of his senators and putting them into brothels (when he wasn't killing their children). Also, he reputedly had conversations with the moon and adored his horse so much that he was going to make it a member of the Roman Senate.
Written in 1971 whilst in prison, Vaclav Havel regarded this as the weakest of his plays. After seeing it again in 2007 he decided he actually liked the play because of the way it was performed.
The White House Murder Case is unnervingly topical for a play that first saw the light of day in 1970. Set in 2020, it prophesies the outlandish concept of Americans fighting in a war on foreign soil, whilst having little or no idea of the reasons for the conflict.
There’s a lot more to this political thriller than a tale of two quibbling siblings. Hannie Rayson's play runs like a televised current affairs report, showing the underside of Australian politics.
David Williamson's Australian classic, 'Don's Party' has spawned a sequel, 'Don Parties On' in which Gillard and Abbott get a serve this time round.
Titus Andronicus' is thought to be Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy, written while he was still learning his craft.