Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

September 17, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

York Theatre, September 5 6.5/10 In other countries they’d be lobbing Molotov cocktails, flipping cars and looting shops. But in Australia a beloved comedian gate-crashed history and lowered the collective blood-pressure on the day when we entered unchartered constitutional waters. Even as deposed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was assuring us…

September 7, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Blue Mountains Theatre, August 25 7/10 We’re slow learners. For decades our worst bushfires have been declared “unprecedented”, the unmistakable trend being that they’re worsening. Hence the title of Campion Decent’s new play (following his related 2008 work Embers). Since 1939, he tells us, there have been 57 official fire-related…

August 30, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Wharf 1 Theatre, August 3 8/10 Your jaw drops before a word is said. Hanging from the flies is an otherworldly, golden, donut-shaped ceiling that could be made of sea sponge or brain matter. It looms low over the stage, with a pristine white dome in its centre and light…