John Shand Posts

August 13, 2026 / Theatre Reviews

Flight Path Theatre, August 6 6/10 Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, indeed. People Inside Me is the first play I’ve seen set in a crematorium. Plays galore have people dying in them, with the satirically macabre Titus Andronicus serving up 14 of its characters, but few are so specifically…

August 9, 2026 / Theatre Reviews

Theatre Royal, August 5 7/10 Tevye’s is such an indomitable heart as makes him larger than life: a force of nature who wears with all that 1905 Imperial Russia can throw at a poor Jewish dairy farmer. Beyond coping, this champion of tradition even learns to adapt to a changing…

August 8, 2026 / Theatre Reviews

Old Fitz Theatre, August 2 6/10 Hamlet is all the rage. In June, Eddie Izzard brought us one-hander, The Tragedy of Hamlet, and in January, the endearing curiosity that is Hamlet Camp, penned and performed by ex-Hamlets Brendan Cowell, Ewen Leslie and Toby Schmitz, returned to Carriageworks. Last year saw…