All posts tagged "theater"

Theatre Review: Cyrano de Bergerac – in the garden

28 characters, 9 actors and Dave Simms directing – you know it’s going to be an action packed, fast moving adventure.

Theatre Review: A Starry Night

SALOS' annual Christmas revue this year is "A Starry Night".

Feast Festival Review: Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.

British writer Alice Birch won the George Devine Award (for a promising playwright) in 2014, with her work Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. Composed of a series of vignettes, the piece deconstructs those frameworks which we often take so for granted that we don’t notice them until they are flipped: language; work; mothering; marriage and so forth.

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OzAsia Festival Review: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land

Stan Lai is regarded as China’s most respected, contemporary theatre director. 30 years ago he started with a script and an improvising theatre troupe, and developed what became Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land.

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Theatre Review: Lines

Four men, four beds, four lockers, they all gaze at you as you enter their space, unflinching, unapologetic. It is a space of confrontation, examination and the cold hard reality of an army training

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OzAsia Festival Review: Dancing Grandmothers

In 2010 Korean choreographer Eun-Me Ahn took some of her dancers and three cameras, travelling around the country. On their journey they filmed older women dancing. These were farmers, fishers, shop-owners, horticulturalists. These women are the backbone of Korea, and Ahn wanted to celebrate them. Dancing Grandmothers is a work which grew out of that initial tour and combines dance, film and movement in a celebration of that most overlooked demographic: the older woman.

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Theatre Review: 24.Two

This show is as close as theatre comes to being a blood sport. Six new one-act plays are presented in Cornerstone College’s Atelier Theatre in Mount Barker. On Friday night, six playwrights, six directors, and a selected bunch of brave actors meet at the theatre. By a series of lucky draws, playwrights are paired with directors, actors are assigned to one of the six writer/director teams, and random topics allocated. The writers have until 6:00am Saturday morning (nine hours) to write their play and email it in. Directors get their scripts at 6:00am, and are back at the theatre an hour later to work with their allotted actors on the play until 8:00pm, when the curtain goes up and we see six new Australian one-act plays.

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Theatre Review: Mamma Mia!

Sophie is determined to have her father walk her down the isle but there's three men who could be her father. She invites all three to her wedding without her mother's knowledge, setting in motion a feel-good, comedy-romance set to the music of ABBA!

David Salter & Sam Stringer in Seussical

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Theatre Review: Seussical

The fantastical world of Dr Seuss comes to life as the Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who! and many other favourite stories and characters intertwine in a colourful musical for the whole family.

Opera Review: Dido and Aeneas

Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, based on the Greek legend, is a short, challenging piece, with an incomplete score. Composed in the 17th century, it is regarded as the oldest opera in English.

Theatre Review: If/Then

Set in present-day New York, this show considers the questions that 38-year-old Elizabeth, a professional town planner, has about her life and its future possibilities as she moves to New York City to start afresh. She’s looking for true love and a perfect job. The book of the musical extrapolates her “what if” thoughts by allowing her to follow two different pathways into her future, contingent on her choices.

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Theatre Review: Out Of Sight… Out Of Murder

It’s always great to be cheered up when the country is in turmoil! Out of Sight… Out of Murder gives you just what is needed to forget that there is a gladiatorial contest going on in Canberra which isn’t half as much fun as this show.

Theatre Review: Patience

This show is a genial celebration of Gilbert and Sullivan at their most gloriously camp. A buxom milkmaid, a brace of affected aesthetes, a posse of lovesick maidens and the 35th Dragoon Guards combine to entertain us with a soufflé-light satire on fashions in art and aesthetics. It may have been written in the late nineteenth century, but its universal topic makes it as much fun today as it was in 1881.

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Theatre Review: Tomfoolery

This cabaret compendium is a well-structured programme of Lehrer’s satirical songs, both famous and obscure.

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Theatre Review: Brothers Wreck

The audience of this landmark piece of Australian theatre is transported for ninety minutes or so from the bleak cold of an Adelaide winter’s night to the interminable steam and heat of Darwin in the Wet. In precise language delivered with just the right cadence and intensity, Jada Alberts’ script brings generalised problems into specific focus.

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