Reviews

Ongoing creative collaborators, La Boite and QUT Creative Industries are presenting an expurgated version of the Shakespearean tragedy that runs a mere 1 hour 45 minutes without interval. All the vital speeches are still in there, but many scenes are cut short or cut out altogether, making for a leaner script that gives the director Todd MacDonald more room to play with movement and silence.

Willoughby Theatre Company’s visually spectacular production of the musical Sweet Charity is one to be talked about for years to come. The large energetic and talented cast did the Neil Simon, Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields script and score true justice in their storytelling and superb song and dance.

The Believers Are But Brothers is an interactive lecture/performance show written and directed by Javaad Alipoor and Kirsty Houstey.  It questions the influence and impact of political extremism and on-line masculinity on the internet in our current digital climate.

Alipoor has had significant recognition across Britain and in the USA with this groundbreaking, award-winning political theatre show, which  covers the whole internet gamut - including online trolling, gamers, ISIS, right-wing extremists and the popularity of meme and 4Chan platforms.

Opera Australia gave this Rossini opera its Australian premiere.  Written to celebrate the coronation of Charles X of France in 1825, the characters are technically on their way to Reims for the coronation...although when they are delayed and decide on Paris instead to aim for the post-coronation parties, nobody seems overly upset, although nobody notably departs for anywhere, a "Godot for the 1820s".  It is very grand disposable art.