Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

July 7, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

SBW Stables Theatre, June 27 6.5/10 Ah, to be enchanted once again, just for an hour. Regrettably, an obsession with the literal – with drab reality – often denies our stages their chance to be that source of wonderment. Actors shout and furiously emote, but the plays themselves bleed only…

July 6, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Lennox Theatre, June 25 4/10 Where’s my hammer? Glass walls between actors and audience have plagued Sydney stages since Benedict Andrew’s malformed Belvoir production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? 12 years ago. If alienating audiences is the point of theatre, then, yes, glass walls are the ultimate coup, but…

June 27, 2019 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Reginald Theatre, June 8 8/10 Offices are like dense traffic: they can distort human behaviour, inducing irrationality in otherwise reasonable people, and paranoia, poison and vengefulness in those who are a nudge less stable to begin. “I’ve forgotten how to be… in an office,” says Lorin near the play’s end.…