This is a young group of actors who have only been working together for a few months and under difficult circumstances after their initial rehearsals in Hong Kong were cut short...
As part of the Asia TOPA festival, the Filipino play Are You Ready To Take The Law Into Your Own Hands should stand out as one of the greatest pieces in absurdist and even Dada-esque theatre productions. In a clearly “non-political” approach (please read between the lines folks) that obviously does not make thinly-veiled swipes...
A star-studded cast including some of Australia’s most celebrated television, film and theatre performers will join already announced Lachy Hulme and Roz Hammond in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, to be staged at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne for a strictly limited season from 23 May. Making his Australian debut, Canadian Jeremy Proulx (BONES: An...
It could be argued that there is a magic unlike no other, when seeing Shakespeare under the stars. As any bard-loving, Melbournian would know – The Australian Shakespeare Company regularly performs a range of plays each summer on the expansive lawns of the Royal Botanic Gardens. The wonder of the legendary bards plays is only...
The Great Australian Play, playing at Theatre Works draws on the myth of Lasseter’s Reef to examine the way Australians create stories. In doing so, it raises some important questions. Whom among us are the storytellers? Who do we tell stories about? And of course, who do we create them for? In a production billed...
The Acclaimed National Theatre of London production of the Tony Award Winning best play by Nick Stafford has opened spectacularly at the Sydney Lyric Theatre with a strictly limited 35 performance season before it moves onto Perth. Featuring a cast of 34 and more than 20 puppets; War Horse is one of those shows you...
Describing Unsuckle – a performance of acting and dance – is a challenge, much like the ideas it presents to its audience. A lot of the ideas it presents on motherhood; whether one should become a mother with climate change looming, the archetype of the mother in ancient times, questions on non-binary or trans parents,...
Acceptance. The theme rings, echoing, space filling, lights flashing-ing and painted in big bold letters on the foreheads of each character in Emily Sheehan’s youth drama ‘Daisy Moon Was Born This Way’. But not just the sort of light-hearted teen drama acceptance you may be expecting. Daisy Moon tackles the idea of Acceptance in a...