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 […]
May
05
We Will Rock You – Who is the reall Killer (of) Queen? (Theatre Review)
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
April
22
A Man Walks Into A Bar – Optimism and faith when joking at the local. (Theatre review)
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A Man Walks Into A Bar Off the Avenue Productions at Blood Moon Theatre 21 April – 7 May You can grab your tickets here. Photo credits: Angie Carmen Photography “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein What is a bar but the ultimate combination of […]
April
21
Shut Up and Drive; or Sex, Liberty and the Automobile – Love and Lust with our cars. (Theatre Review)
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Shut Up And Drive; or Sex, Liberty and the Automobile Subtlenuance in associatin with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company. 9-23 April, King Cross Theatre. You can grab your tickets here. “After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.” Crash (J.G. Ballard) Shut Up And Drive […]
April
20
The Best Brothers – Language as the vehicle for the unsayable. (Theatre Review)
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The Best Brothers Old 505 Theatre, 5 Eliza Street 13 – 30 April 2016. You can grab your tickets here. It was Wittgenstein who gave us the idea that a seemingly rash run of gibberish may be philosophically illuminating. More than this, seeing language used in a context, and understanding that context matters, may lead […]
April
18
Theatre I missed: Space Cats (Theatre review)
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Sometimes I see performances and for various reasons are not able to review within the limited run of the show. If the show is something special, I still like to write about it – even if I’m playing catch up. Space Cats 505 Theatre Find out more about Space Cats here. Photo Credits Andre Vasquez […]
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