The Moors: an eccentric, funny and deranged romp
"The Moors is a deranged romp through a world that echoes the Brontes," writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
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In a change of pace, entertainer Paul McDermott, of Doug Anthony All Stars and Good News Week fame, is bringing his show Poems to Smith’s Alternative, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Coming soon to Queanbeyan, where the humble shopping trolley has been deified in song, is a show inspired by an equally iconic object – the wheelie bin, reports HELEN MUSA.
"This production succeeded in giving a gripping theatrical experience. Rather than feeling crushed, the show concludes with uplifting sense of its possibilities." ARNE SJOSTEDT reviews The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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Bassingthwaighte is electric as self-effacing Shirley
"The show is a fun journey back in time to a fantasy adventure." SIMONE PENKETHMAN reviews Shirley Valentine at Canberra Theatre.
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Play’s precise warning and prediction about authoritarianism
"From the small gestural reactions to commands and the sudden changes in special relations, the cast provides an excellent example of true ensemble playing." JOE WOODWARD reviews The House of Bernarda Alba.
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Mystery play with a ‘twisted’ sense of humour
Coming up at the Mill Theatre is The Moors, by American playwright Jen Silverman, that was inspired by Charlotte Brontë's real letters yet it is, as one of the lead players in the show says, “so much fun”, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Director Karen Vickery, who is rehearsing Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca’s last play, The House of Bernarda Alba, believes he is "one of the great voices of the Spanish world in terms of literature, art and theatre."
HELEN MUSA previews the new production of Willy Russell’s seminal 1986 play Shirley Valentine, starring screen identity and pop singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte in the title role.
36 Shakespeare plays in eight days? All the world's a table top, where the players are cans of drink and toilet rolls.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports that getting to stage The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a dream come true for Mockingbird Theatre Company director Chris Baldock.
"This Diana story contained the lot, from birth to a sidestepping of Diana’s death that managed to implicate the Queen." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Diana The Untold and Untrue Story.
"This wasn’t a pleasant experience – but perhaps that is the mark of a good psychological thriller... Baby Jane was gripping, unsettling, and a strong production from cast and crew," writes reviewer ARNE SJOSTEDT.
Director Ed Wightman has gone back to the original 1960 novel of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and devised a stage play simply called Baby Jane, reports HELEN MUSA.
"Performed on the grass, the actors at once had to be larger than life and capable of using their physicality and very clear diction to advance the story." JOE WOODWARD reviews Macbeth at The Q.
The third Ovations Awards covered more than 30 categories, including performers, directors, designers, lighting, and costume, with a new cabaret category at this year’s event at the Hellenic Club on Friday night, reports HELEN MUSA.
In a bold but theatre-savvy move, Lakespeare, Shakespeare by the Lakes, has got together with The Q this year to present Macbeth – mostly outdoors, reports HELEN MUSA.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Mojo, Jez Butterworth’s 1995 play set in the sleazy shallows of the 1950s British music scene.
The fast-paced script of the play Mojo by Jez Butterworth, rich with expletives and poetic Cockney language, sees the gang members working out what to do, comforted by an endless supply of little pills to pop, reports HELEN MUSA.
