Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

October 3, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

New Theatre, September 9 6/10 Ana jumped in front of the speeding train called life, and was buffeted down the tracks for the next 80 years. Her stoicism, humour, resilience and courage light up Neighbourhood Watch more than her grudges and stubbornness cloud it, so she emerges as something of…

August 19, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

El Rocco Theatre, July 24 7/10 Someone had to go first and, four months after the lights went off, live theatre returned to Sydney. The sense of anticipation before this show was a bit like the crackling electricity of going to the theatre as a child: here were real, in-the-flesh…

July 30, 2020 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Old Fitz Theatre, June 29 9/10 Thom Paine is a paradox wrapped in an accident that may happen again while we’re watching. That’s the wonder of US playwright Will Eno’s hour-long one-hander: it stays dangerous even when you know the play; never sheds its unpredictability. You can test that theory,…