Chase
Imagine if the world had all but come to an end and you were the last person left on Earth. Global warming has sparked a hellfire and only you survived – …
Review
The Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol 2023
What a magical, beautifully constructed and executed show The Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol is. Conceived and directed by Matthew Warchus, Jack Thorne has reimagined the Charles Dickens’ classic tale to …
Dry Land
*Warning* This review contains spoilers and graphic content CONTENT WARNING Audiences 16+. Contains strong language, references to suicide, drug use, abortion, self-harm, violence and scenes with blood. As I entered …
The Waiting Room
Five young women at the pearly gates, or are they at the gates of hell? Taken far too young, they are called upon – one by one – to enunciate their …
Villainy
There is something wicked and subversive about storybook villains rising and trying to rewrite their fate. That’s the premise of the world premiere musical Villainy. Druzilla (Olivia Charalambous), one of Cinderella’s ugly …
A Very Jewish Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge has never seen the likes of it. Take the classic tale A Christmas Carol and put a Jewish twist on it. That is what writer Elise Esther Hearst …
Ladies In Black
I came back to the Heidelberg Theatre Company for the final time this year on Friday night to attend the opening night of their first ever musical production in their …
The Human Centipede
Inspired by the 2009 Dutch horror film The Human Centipede, Synergy Production Co. has given us a musical parody featuring the same characters. Like the movie, it concerns a deranged German …
Spring Awakening
I Went back to Williamstown for the opening night of Williamstown Musical Theatre Company’s Spring Awakening on Friday night and despite its dark and depressing plot in a story of …
La Cage aux Folles
Forty years on, the winner of 11 Tony Awards remains so much rambunctious fun. This all-new Australian production stars five-time Helpmann Award winner Paul Capsis in the lead role of …