Category Archives: Theatre

October 02

Puntila/Matti – Doppelgangster and the Marxist dialectic. (Theatre Review)

Puntila/Matti MKA and Dopplegangster with bAKEHOUSE at KXT. September 24 – October 17. You can grab your tickets here.  Images: Rupert Reid For John Paul Sartre, bourgeois theatre presents images. In his words, that is: “The image of man as eternally unchanging in a universe that never changes.” This is the image of a subject, […]

October 01

What Happened to Mari-Lyn – Sydney Fringe (Theatre review)

What Happened to Mari-Lyn? Mad Art Co. Unfortunately, this show has completed its run at the time of this review. However, follow Mad Art co here, to keep track of any repeat performances. The question over the white middle classes hold on the arts is a fascinating one. According to The Guardian  Arts in the […]

September 25

Betty Grumble’s Love and Anger – Sydeny Fringe (performance review)

Betty Grumble’s Love & Anger (Or sex clown saves the world again!) This show has completed its run at the Sydney Fringe. If you want to find out more about Betty Grumble, dive in here.  Please note: These images are not taken from the fringe show, they are lifted from Betty Grumbles website and gallery. […]

September 25

Russell – Sydney Fringe (Theatre Review)

Russell Sydney Fringe This show has completed its run at the fringe. You can find out more about it here.  There is a forgotten role for anxiety and nothingness in contemporary theatre, tapping more into the cognitive power of trauma rather than focusing on the psychological underpinnings of a key protagonist. In this way, theatre […]

September 24

The Mysteries of Mad River: A Swamp-Folk Operetta – Sydney Fringe

The Mysteries of Mad River: A swamp-folk Operetta This show has completed its run at The Fringe, but you can find out more about future performances here. In the show The Mysteries of Mad River, Keppie Coutts plays a school teacher reveling in the mysterious deaths of children at her school. Keppie Coutts is also […]

September 24

Deathtrap – Sydney Fringe (Theatre Review)

Deathtrap Exit Game Productions and King Street Theatre Sydney Fringe. This productions run is complete, but you can find out more about it here. This review contains spoilers Images: Stephen Reinhardt Exit Game Productions saw fit to bring Deathtrap to our stages again for the 2017 Fringe festival. Deathtrap is a fun piece, playing with […]

September 23

The Night Alive – A dying man and a world passed by. (Theatre Review)

The Night Alive O’Punksky’s Theatre in association with Red Line Productions. 13 September – 14 October You can grab your tickets here.  Please note: This review contains spoilers. Conor McPherson is right to lament the death of white male domination, because no matter what the keyboard warrior trolls and their president might have you believe, […]

September 23

Diva Wars – Sydney Fringe (Theatre Review)

Diva Wars Sydney Fringe Festival at The New Theatre September 19 – 23 You can grab your tickets here. The primary problem with the refutation of homosexual unions has always been what heterosexuals lose rather than what homosexuals gain. Alternate relationship options give us a chance to explore ourselves, regardless of orientation. Only by giving […]

September 22

Ghosts – Resisting the temptation to separate. (Theatre Review)

Ghosts Belvoir Theatre 16 Sept – 22 Oct You can grab your tickets here.  In the afterword to The Birth of Tragedy, added fourteen years after its initial publication, Friedrich Nietzsche refutes the Wagnerian-Schopenhauerian impulses of his youthful work. “What a pity,” he writes, “I did not dare to say what I had to say […]

September 21

In Real Life – Is intelligence ever real? (Theatre Review)

In Real Life Darlinghurst Theatre Company Eternity Playhouse 15 Sept – 15 Oct. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Phil Erbacher Being good at chess does not make you a genius, and the fact that humans think it does (by consensus) is part of our problem with Artificial Intelligence. Work on artificial intelligence is […]