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The Canterbury Tales
When Geoffrey Chaucer published The Canterbury Tales in the 14th century, it's unlikely he envisioned that a wig would take on a character of its...
Jane “Meta” Austen
This is not your typical Jane Austen show. This is meta chaos. Act I is what you would expect from anything attached to Jane Austen...
Ms Julie Gabler: Trapped
Ms Julie Gabler: Trapped is a reimagining of Shakespeare's Othello, set in a modern Australian household with a diverse cast of intense characters. Han...
She Works Hard For (No) Money: A Reality Delivered With Precise Hilarity
She Works Hard For (No) Money is an ode to the superheroes in our lives: the women that make magic seem real when everything is...
Betrayal
Watching Sport for Jove’s production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, now playing at the Old Fitz Theatre, I ran through alternative titles for the piece in...
Still Savouring: Castle Hill Players’ Tender and Sweet Production of ‘The Last Five Years’
'The Last Five Years' is an ambitious show to take on; a Jason Robert Brown score is no tame beast, and the intimate vulnerability required...
The Golden Shine of Trophy Boys – at Carriageworks
The setting for Trophy Boys at Carriageworks was simple. A spinning whiteboard, and high school tables and chairs; a typical classroom. However, the themes...
Blood Wedding: Picking at a Scab Until it Bleeds
Bloody and haunting, Blood Wedding is a tale of star-crossed lovers, and the carnage that begets their ill-fated romance. This play is chilling, a glimpse...
Plied and Prejudice
The court was certainly aflutter during Plied and Prejudice, a racy adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. Featuring five unhinged acto...
An Epic Masterpiece Of Creative Collaboration
Upon entry to the theatre, the background music is teetering that edge of ambient and unsettling. There’s a child rocking on a horse downstage right....
Life’s Journey with Rick Springfield
The Late Late at Night: The Rick Springfield Story promises a show with heart and nostalgia as the audience is taken down memory lane with...
Agatha Crispie
A hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie’s classic whodunits, written by Cenarth Fox and directed by David Dodd. In the south-west of England soon after Wor...
