Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

October 28, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

SBW Stables Theatre, October 12 8/10 When it comes it’s as unexpected as a wedge of gorgonzola in a bag of jellybeans. Playwright Nick Coyle leads you into a mad tunnel of laughs, that has jokes, slapstick, silliness and satire jostling you relentlessly from all angles, until you feel pinched…

October 27, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Belvoir St Theatre, October 11 4.5/10 Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 drama An Enemy of the People seems freakishly prescient in an era when politicians abandon all pretence of truth as a basis for decision-making, preferring to serve black-magic ideologies and special-interest groups (no doubt on promises of post-politics pay-backs). About a…

October 26, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Eternity Playhouse, October 9 7/10 She’s as hard as her surname. On the surface. Beneath that lie various strata of gravel, grit and dirt, and it’s only deeper still you hit the little seams of guilt, vulnerability and compassion. It’s not easy being Maggie Stone: bank loans officer, sick, lonely…