Reviews

Sex, liquid courage and finding Mr. Right are age old themes in the dating game, but they’ve been given an up-to-the-minute contemporary and interactive twist in Nelle Lee’s  Fourthcoming, a riotous rom-com from the Shake and Stir team. This is one show where you are encouraged to use your phone, checking in with the app on the seat in front of you, and participating in the action and end result.

Perahu-Perahu, which means ‘boats’ in Indonesian, is an intriguing glimpse into Indonesian history and culture told through music and wayang kuli (Indonesian shadow puppetry) with a modern twist.

It explores the precarious relationship between humans, their treatment of mother earth and outlines the history of travel across the waters between Indonesia and Australia, all told with the sea as a linking element.

Open Homes is a wonderful initiative and collaboration between Jeffrey Tan from Singapore and South Australia’s No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability and is one of the highlights of this year’s Oz-Asia Festival. As the program notes state, ‘Behind every door of every home, there are stories that might never be told. Open Homes is a chance to hear them.

The thriller Wait Until Dark, produced by Fremantle Performing Artists, is playing to capacity audiences at The Actors Hub studios.

Unusual to see thrillers on stage, this 1966 classic keeps its audience on the edge of their seats, while it features a bravura role for its leading actress. 

Suzy Hendrix is a blind Greenwich Village housewife who becomes the target of three con-men searching for a doll, containing drugs, which Suzy’s husband has unwittingly trafficked from Canada, for a woman who has since been murdered.