Reviews

Where Water Once Was is a domestic drama with edge. Nicely directed and well-acted, it tells of a family struggling to deal with change as a mother succumbs to dementia and her adult children struggle to deal with a crumbling family home which holds dark secrets.

1933.  Professor John Halder (David Tenant), a specialist in Goethe at the University of Frankfurt, is a ‘good’ man – liberal, rational, moral – or so he thinks.  He is initially dismayed by Hitler but figures the Nazis won’t last and all this anti-Jewish thing likewise – it’s just ridiculous.  These are ‘rational’ but self-serving opinions.

Sally Ford and the Idiomatics – Patrick Cronin and Michael Havir – fill the Space Theatre with a fusion of music, song, and spoken word, offering decades of musical style to underscore Ford’s observations through poetry and prose.

Koorliny Arts Centre’s production of Catch Me If You Can has been much anticipated, and is certainly living up to the hype. Featuring a stellar cast, this show has outstanding production values, looks great, sounds brilliant and is being very well received.

Performed on a multi-level set, which it will cleverly share with the upcoming production of Les Misérables, it is beautifully dressed and thoughtfully used. Costumes, under the supervision of head of wardrobe Lyn Leeder, are particularly impressive and transport us back to the 1960s.