Reviews

‘Rootless cosmopolitans’ was the snide euphemism for Jews in Stalin’s USSR.  Permanent outsiders, people who don’t belong, can’t be trusted – and yet are also greedy, much too powerful, etc.  Every antisemitic cliché that has justified pogroms, persecution, exclusion, the Holocaust and the simmering suspicion and antisemitism that never goes away – and always threatens to break out.  When I was a kid, ‘Jew’ was an insult.  Such is the subject of Ron Elisha’s play.  That and contemporary ‘cancel

The Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s production of The Gondoliers is well-produced and nicely sung, with a lovely feel.

Michael Frayn's successful and well-known farce has been around a long time and since its first performance in the UK in 1982, where it ran for five years, there have been numerous revivals worldwide, even a movie version, directed by Peter Bogdanovitch and including an all-star international cast.

night sweat, written and performed by Michelle McCowage was of interest to me as I have always had difficulties in the sleep realm. The show was nominated for Best Theatre and Best Emerging Artist last year at Melbourne Fringe and it was remounted for a three-night season at the Motley Bauhaus. The blurb describes the show as a seamless interplay of physical theatre, improvisation and poetic storytelling, transporting audiences into the murky farrago between awake and asleep.