Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

March 30, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

The Joan, March 13, 7.5/10 Lamb is dotted with songs the way dry dams dot a drought-struck sheep farm. Penned by Hunters and Collectors’ Mark Seymour, they frame the play’s sepia tone of love and life and gone wrong, and the slow pace at which this happens. As Kathleen, the…

March 26, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Playhouse, March 11 7/10 If John Bell is anything to go by, basking in the words of William Shakespeare for 65 years is good for the soul. Exuding a calm generosity of spirit, he spent an hour conveying his singular love for this greatest of writers, artists and perhaps minds.…

March 8, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

The Wharf, February 26 8/10 It has to permeate the words, the voices and the very air. If it does, the magic will permeate us, too. More than the lovable characters, gripping story-telling and the sense of place so profound that you can smell it, Ruth Park’s 1980 novel for…