Category Archives: Theatre

May 10

Black Jesus – The difficulties in Zimbabwe reach our protected shores. (Theatre Review)

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Black Jesus bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company, 29 Apil – 21 May King Cross Theatre, You can grab your tickets here Image credit: Nick McKinlay Watching Black Jesus, one is struck by how rarely we see stories from Africa on our Sydney stages – and how few of even them are written by African writers. The people […]

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May 09

Dirty People – Millenials on the verge of greatness. (Theatre review)

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Dirty People Doonbrae Productions and Jackrabbit Theatre Find out more about this production here. Photo credits: Tom Cramond Like every generation before them, Millennial’s get a lot of bad press. Narcissistic, delusions of grandeur, more interested in becoming a personal assistant to a star than enter politics, they are the generation that receive on average […]

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May 05

We Will Rock You – Who is the reall Killer (of) Queen? (Theatre Review)

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We Will Rock You Sydney Lyric Theatre From Thursday 28 April. You can grab your tickets here As a hard core Queen fan, I always knew I was in for a punish with We Will Rock You. The “rock musical” that we masticate so ferociously these days is always an anemic affair, a facsimile of […]

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May 04

Edward Gants Amazing Feats Of Lonliness – The audience has lost its way. (Theatre review)

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Edward Gants Amazing Feats of Loneliness PACT theatre, Polyamorous Productions 4 May to Saturday 7 May. You can grab your ticket here. Photo credits: Liam O’Keefe When Anthony Neilson has Edward Gant (Will Hickey) forge his final tragic lament, it is impossible to miss that his soulful loneliness is the loneliness of theatre itself. He […]

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May 01

Spring awakening – The Musical : Young adults and the freedom to make mistakes. (Theatre Review)

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Spring Awakening – The Musical ATYP Studio 1, The Warf 27 April – 14 May. You can grab your tickets here. Contrary to popular contemporary belief systems, passion and perversion are uniquely human in the animal kingdom. Therefore our budding interest in sexuality is the very terrain when humans detach themselves from nature. For human’s […]

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April 28

There’s No One New Around You: A Tinder Musical – Confused, tragic life makes art. (Theatre Review)

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There’s No One New Around You: A Tinder Musical The Fuse Box, Factory Theatre from April 28 to April 30 – You can grab your tickets here. Keira Daly and Mark Simpson offer a skit as the perfect opener to There’s No One New Around You: A Tinder Musical. A man and a woman sit […]

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April 25

Belleville – Live for your desires. (Theatre Review)

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Belleville Mad March Hare Theatre company Old Fitz Theatre from 20 April to 12 May You can grab your tickets here. The primary crises of Belleville are communication and desire. Desire and its lack exist in language all through the production. Zack (Josh Anderson) and Abby (Taylor Ferguson) live in Belleville, a fashionably “now” suburb […]

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April 23

Orphans – Should I stay or should I go. (Theatre Review)

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Orphans Old Fitz Theatre, Late Show 19-30 April. You can grab your tickets here. When Liam (Liam Nunan) bursts in on Helen (Jacki Mison) and Danny (Christopher Morris) having their quiet celebratory dinner to welcome the news of Helen’s pregnancy, he causes a confrontation, not with our own cultural values and the imminent threat of […]

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April 09

Plaything – Humour as a defense against the tragedy of being human. (Theatre review)

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Plaything The Depot Theatre from 30 March to 16 April. You can grab your tickets here. Images by Katy Green Loughrey The question of humour and its role in our life exists at the heart of Simon Dodd’s Plaything. Two people, a female and a male, find themselves trapped on a stage – a limited […]

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March 07

The Picture of Dorian Gray -Wilde’s message reimagined. (Theatre Review)

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The Picture of Dorian Gray Genesian Theatre from 16 Feb through to 19 March You can grab your tickets here In 1890 when Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray it was only four years after Nietzsche wrote Beyond Good and Evil, the scandalous text that criticised philosophers, poets writers and moralists of not […]

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