Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

August 19, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Lennox Theatre, July 29 9/10 Camila Ponte Alvarez brings such vivacity to the role of Lucia as to make every line and spit and sizzle with humour, contempt, joy, angst and scheming calculation. Her eyes flash as her arms, hands and fingers continually trace acute angles in the air –…

August 15, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Reginald Theatre, July 26 7/10 Fear turns to terror when our imaginations go to work upon the facts as Henry James understood so well. By not explaining the ghostly phenomena in The Turn of the Screw, he engaged his readers’ imaginations, and by keeping the ambiguities alive until the end,…

August 10, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Roslyn Packer Theatre, July 22 6/10 Among the wonders of life is that most of us aren’t obsessed about death until we’re confronting it – and some not even then. Death constantly clouds Nevil Shute’s 1957 novel On the Beach, infusing each character with acceptance or denial. Death is inevitable…