Reviews

Were this play not so precisely staged, if its music were not so integrated and evocative, and the two lead women – Georgia Brooks and Teresa Duddy – not so well cast and so disciplined, then Carmilla could fail.  It could even risk seeming rather silly.  But staging, music, casting and performance are so well judged and well felt here that this adaptation of a 19th century Gothic novella works very well indeed. 

Brink Productions’ The Aspirations of Daise Morrow at first looks like a play, but soon sounds like a narrative, with the characters themselves narrating every gesture and act.  This is unsurprising given that the performance transcribed verbatim Patrick White's short story, “Down at the Dump”.  Yet as a story it has something of a surreal, dream-like quality, making up for what it lacks in story arc by an active emotional impressionism, the entire narrative sounding like an extende

The unquestionable power of this iconic Tennessee Williams play is brought well and truly to life in this production. Andrews has made a variety of bold choices in relation to set and casting and they pay off well. Sienna Miller creates a husky Maggie and her smouldering sexuality is equally echoed in Jack O’Connell’s Brick. The performances, much like the original film and stage versions, capitalise on performances that are as much physical as they are intellectual.

A powerful and immersive tour- de –force!

Two performers walk into the brightly-lit studio, circumnavigate the edge of the white floor establishing their own pace; both look determined and headstrong.

Common Ground is the new highly innovative work by the acclaimed choreographer and director Anouk van Dijk, who has created the concept for and with two brilliant performers, Richard Cilli and Tara Jade Samaya, at the Chunky Move Studios.