Reviews

“Let’s have the adventure before the dementia!” wryly quips Adrian before he and his wife set off to Italy for the trip of a lifetime. Four Flat Whites in Italy ticks every box as the perfect play to celebrate the recent opening of overseas travel!

Therry Theatre have a real winner on their hands with their current production; excellent production values, great casting, intelligent direction, functional set and a script that keeps the laughs coming fast and maybe a few tears

This operetta is a departure from Shostakovich’s usual music style, but the dynamic music combined with an equally lively libretto create a vibrant text with definite shades of black comedy. The story centres around the chronic shortage of housing in the Soviet capital in the 1950s and directly criticises the defective political machinery of the day. The decision to adapt the story to Melbourne rather than Moscow is a clever one, given the political sensitivity of the location and the relevance to Melbourne’s lingering and worsening housing crisis. 

Walking into the beautifully appointed Empire Theatre to the almost full audience, it was clear that theatre is alive and well in Toowoomba.

We all know The Boy from Oz, and that it is a recreation of Peter Allen’s final concert interlaced with a biographical story of his life, so I won't go into a full synopsis of the show.

As the third episode of the Grief Trilogy, this play continues to explore the impact of grief and how it intrudes into life, in this case, the most ephemeral of contacts. Three women are at the Blood Bank donating plasma and are physically constrained in their chairs watching television. The intrusion of the televised coverage of a bombing at a public music event opens their wounds and they gradually reveal their personal losses.