A Doll’s House, Part 2
When Nora makes the shocking decision to leave her husband and children in the final scene of Ibsen’s The Doll’s House, a door slams and the curtain falls. Lucas Hnath’s 2017 play A Doll’s House, Part 2 takes up where Ib...
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Strictly Ballroom
Having been a part of the seventies ballroom dancing world, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) production of Strictly Ballroom is sheer entertainment delight that had me grinning from ear to ear. W...
Travesties
Like Alan Moore’s work, Lost Girls, Tom Stoppard’s Travesties holds at its centre an unlikely confluence of popular figures in one location at the same time. While Moore’s sublime book is complete fiction, Stoppard’s scr...
Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Bobby Fox – The Irish Boy
Joseph Campbell wrote “the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are” and Bobby Fox, we are truly thankful that you shared who you are with us on Saturday night. From the moment he walked on stage, he had us at hello....
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
In this wonderfully chilling production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, we see the titular character arrive in Georgian London, beholden to Anthony Hope, who has rescued him at sea. We learn that Todd ...
Puttin’ On the Ritz
On the back of their successful 2017 Australian tour, the Company of Puttin’ On the Ritz have returned, drawing a full house at the Frankston Arts Centre on Saturday 8 June – that extra shows were needed to meet de...
Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Megan Mullally and her band Nancy And Beth
Where do I start reviewing this show? In order to start reviewing this show, I really need to to understand what I just witnessed – and I’m still trying to work through that! Let me say from the outset, I mea...
Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Taxithi – An Australian Odyssey
Taxithi – An Australian Odyssey is a poignant and important work about the untold stories of women who migrated from Greece to Australia in the 50’s and 60’s. The immensely talented Helen Yotis Patterson, Maria Mer...
