Review: Wrecking Ball
It’s a bit of a strange thing to walk into a theatre having been told what the themes of a piece are. Explicitly, immediately,...
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Double Review: Rent
Two of our reviewers were quite keen to go see Rent! One because they’ve heard one song from it and liked it and were...
You should… play Outside: the Cloud
What if a chemical weapon was secretly tested on a major city? What if artificial intelligence could spread like a virus? What if human...
Review: Deceptive Threads
Deceptive Threads is a play that takes the phrase ‘the personal is political’ and applies it to family history. David Joseph, a Lebanese Australian...
“Striking a balance between scares, thrills, drama, comedy is a fascinating one. This show has all of those elements” – Justin Stephens’ on The Woman in Black
Suspense and horror isn’t the most common theme of a live production – more than often you’ll be treated to a thorough breakdown on...
Review: Deus Ex Machina or, God from the Machine
With a title that foregrounds a narrative trope, and then spells it out even more clearly – I must admit, my expectations for Deus Ex...
Review: Breathing Corpses
Arriving at Candyland Arts Space feels much the same as arriving at Jim’s storage space, one imagines. There is a cold industrial feel, both...
“We hope that people will see it as an adventure” – Jaq Avery and Alice Daly on their Melbourne Fringe Production ‘Breathing Corpses’
Amy keeps finding bodies in the hotel bedrooms she cleans, Jim’s been trying to ignore the smell coming from one of his self storage...
Review: Wit
Dr. Vivian Bearing is dying of ovarian cancer. A professor of literature specialising in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Bearing (played by Jane...
“In the current theatrical climate it feels like the well-written play is an Avant Garde concept” – director Ben Pfeiffer on the Melbourne premiere season of ‘Wit’
I don’t mean to give away the plot, but I think I die at the end. Vivian Bearing (Jane Montgomery Griffiths) is a brilliant...
