All posts tagged "Theatre"
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1.5KArtsOzAsia Festival Review: My Home At The Intersection
The Australian premiere of Abhishek Thapar’s My Home At The Intersection was an insightful and compelling inclusion for the 2019 OzAsia Festival.
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1.4KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Art
Art provides an interesting example of how one single action (in this case the purchase of a painting) can trigger the emotional fracturing of a 15 year friendship and where the possibility of a resolution seems almost non-existent.
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2.3KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Once Upon A Mattress
Mock-mediaeval merriment in a fractured fairy-tale story results in a cheery show filled with pratfalls, patter, send-ups and satire.
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1.0KArtsOzAsia Festival Review: The Village
A play of epic proportions, The Village tells the historic 50-year story of families displaced by the Chinese Communist Revolution. It is an emotional tale that emphasises the importance of family and the changing concept of ‘home’.
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963ArtsOzAsia Festival Review: Cuckoo
Cuckoo is one of three theatre productions in Jaha Koo’s Hamartia Trilogy. All three productions are similarly themed with the main focus being to theatrically communicate how major external events affect the social and interpersonal climate within which one grows up.
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1.1KArtsOzAsia Festival Review: Beyond Skin-Revisited
In 1999, English-Indian composter Nitin Sawhney put together an album which he mostly recorded in his bedroom. It was a highly personal piece of work, including such elements as vocal clips from his mother and father.
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2.1KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Seventeen
Written as a vehicle for the founders of the venerable Belvoir Street Theatre, Seventeen sees a group of teenagers, hanging out in a park, on their last day of school. Except that these teens are played by middle-aged actors.
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2.1KEntertainmentTheatre Review: The Mikado
The Mikado,the best known and most popular of the comic operettas written by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert. Poking fun at the obsession with all things Japanese, in 1880s middle-class London, the plot is deliberately silly, and serves as a framework for the humour and music.
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1.3KEntertainmentTheatre Review: The 39 Steps
In its returning season, a fresh take on an Alfred Hitchcock classic The 39 Steps is a marvellous example of a strong ensemble driven physical theatre comedy.
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3.0KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Kinky Boots
On the surface, this cheery British story, concocted by two Americans, teaches a simple economic truth – if your customers don’t want what you’re making, stop making it and, instead, make a product they actually want.
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3.0KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Girl Asleep
It’s time to reminisce about your teenage years, both its horrors and heart-warming experiences, as we follow 14-year-old Greta on the colourful, dramatic and surreal night of her 15th birthday in Girl Asleep - a truly unique coming-of-age tale.
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4.7KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Heathers the Musical
Heathers the Musical is an adaptation of the 1988 Daniel Waters film starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. The dark comedy centers on the ill fated pairing of sociopath J.D and Veronica Sawyer
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2.4KEntertainmentTheatre Review: An Inspector Calls
J.B. Priestley’s old-fashioned drawing-room drama written in 1945 still packs a moral wallop. On the surface, it’s a static set, with a bunch of English upper middle-class people talking around the celebratory dining table. Dad and mum, daughter and son, together with the daughter’s new fiancé, cheerfully celebrate the engagement. A mysterious Inspector Goole knocks on their door and starts asking them all questions.
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2.0KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Lady Liberty
Telling the story of her time in New York, Lucienne Weber takes us through terrifying Broadway auditions, friendships, love and sex (or the lack thereof!).
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1.3KEntertainmentTheatre Review: The Sydney Dance Company: Bonachela/Nankivell/Lane: 50th Anniversary Triple Bill
Recognised for the quality of their work, the Sydney Dance Company have been at the forefront of contemporary dance in Australia. Due to their high class work it is unsurprising the company has survived for fifty years and to celebrate their anniversary they are touring some of their finest work.
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961EntertainmentTheatre Review: Pilgrims
A space drama, Pilgrims is set in a comfortable hotel like room in a space craft; its passengers are on a one hundred day journey to start a new life in a colony.
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1.8KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Things I Know To Be True
Andrew Bovell’s play follows the (mis) fortunes and emotional ties and tangles between members of the Price family living in Hallett Cove.
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1.4KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Don Carlos
Set in Spain in 1567-8, at the height of Spain’s colonial power, King Philip the Second struggles to deal with the unrest of his subjects in the Netherlands. His son Don Carlos returns to Spain full of philosophical ideas that were spreading throughout Europe at the time, eager to change the ridged, religious and ritualised country of his birth.
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1.9KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Jerusalem
A powerhouse, irreverent marathon of tragic comedy, Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem embodies England as it is and England as it once might have been – that is, at least, according to an idealised mythological version of its past.
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2.6KEntertainmentTheatre Review: A View From the Bridge
From its premiere in 1956, under the direction of Peter Brook, A View From the Bridge has been regarded as one of the greats of the 20th century American canon.
