The Independents serve up fear and farce
From the deeply disturbing dance theatre of Little Dove's The Fool to the anarchic comedy of Frumpus's Landed, The Independents delivers two wildly contrasting shows, reviews GRACE CASSIDY.
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GRACE CASSIDY reviews a double billing at The Independents – A Festival of New Work.
ARNE SJOSTEDT reviews David Williamson's play 'Face to Face' at the Mockingbird Theatre which, at 80-minute, was expertly paced and devoid of dull moments.
Canberra audiences are in for a wild ride in the Playhouse as six distinctive productions bring independent creators to the stage in Canberra Theatre Centre's The Independents – Festival of New Works, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Za Kabuki goes fishing for laughs and love
Known as the oldest Kabuki troupe in the Southern Hemisphere and founded in 1976 by teachers in the ANU Japan Centre, ANU’s Kabuki club, Za Kabuki, hits the stage at Canberra Rep Theatre, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Illness cancels Still Here show
Arts editor Helen Musa reports the show Still Here has been cancelled due to illness.
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Footy play celebrates the trailblazers and visionaries
"Strong is the New Pretty clearly makes the point of the sacrifices, determination, multitasking and risk these women took and continue to take, aided by a group of men who shared their ambition," writes reviewer SAMARA PURNELL.
Canberra's drag, burlesque and cabaret communities will come together for an evening of glamour, spectacle and live performance when La Cage BLEU opens at Blue Eyes Bar & Lounge this weekend, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"The set may be a grand staircase and an even grander bookcase but the story of the Bennet sisters is being told by the female lower classes who scrub the floors and clean the loos," says reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
Jonathan Biggins goes well beyond political satire to inhabit Paul Keating in a performance of humour, poignancy and exceptional acting, reviews JOE WOODWARD.
Australian lawyer-turned-playwright Suzie Miller has turned her attention to the unlikely subject of Australian Rules football, in particular the Australian Women's Football League, in a new play, Strong Is The New Pretty.
Hawker College is in the throes of staging its big annual show, Peter and the Starcatcher, a prequel to JM Barrie's Peter Pan, reports HELEN MUSA.
"Daisy Pulls It Off examines the life of a scholarship girl, bright and cheerful Daisy Meredith, who arrives at a posh girls’ school where she encounters snobbery and a degree of savagery," writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
Canberra REP is stepping back into the world of midnight feasts, secret codes, hockey finals and boarding-school adventures with Daisy Pulls It Off, Denise Deegan’s Olivier Award-winning comedy, opening this Friday.
LEN POWER reviews theatre company Bloomshed's take on George Orwell's Animal Farm, setting the story in rural Australia and giving the animals a voice that sounds "uncomfortably like the language of Australian labour politics".
A fire on Monday at the National Theatre in Braidwood has necessitated a change of venue for the coming show, 1966 And All That.
SAMARA PURNELL reviews the local reboot of Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith's "Bombshells" by director Jordan Best’s production.
Jonathan Biggins is back in his celebrated role as Paul Keating and, as he tells arts editor HELEN MUSA, audiences can't get enough of the 're-tweaked' second coming of The Gospel According to Paul.
Saplings is a "gentle youth theatre piece that probes the experiences of a group of young indigenous people struggling with an urban society that doesn’t seem to give them much", reviews ALANNA MACLEAN.
