Reviews

Meow Meow’s The Red Shoes is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s tragic tale of The Red Shoes. A star vehicle for Meow Meow (the alter ego of Melissa Madden Gray), this is a big production that fills His Majesty’s Theatre, with this building’s grandeur a perfect space for this dark tale.

As part of the Adelaide Festival, LG Arts Center’s production of The Cherry Orchard was nothing short of extraordinary. A reimagining of Anton Chekhov’s play that was boldly and brilliantly adapted for modern Seoul by Simon Stone and while Chekhov’s original focus on loss, change and social upheaval remains timelessly relevant, Stone’s interpretation sharpens its urgency through the lens of three generations of a Korean chaebol family confronting collapse in a rapidly shifting world.

The first Australian amateur production of Frozen – the Broadway Musical brings to real life the Disney movie that has fascinated thousands of little girls over and over again! Two princesses, a duplicitous prince, a reindeer, a talking snowman, snow, ice, a mountain landscape … and magic! A mammoth task for an independent theatre company!

But magic is what the huge team from PACA has achieved.

The WA Premiere of Hans Christian Andersen Jr - A Musical Fable of Copenhagen brought a sense of deja vu for anyone familiar with the Danny Kaye, Hans Christian Andersen film, as it contains the same songs. While from memory, the tale is quite different, it has a lovely sense of nostalgia, and the young cast bring the story to life beautifully.