Reviews

Terence Rattigan wrote this once searing domestic portrait of class, shame and lost love reportedly after the suicide of a male lover.  The play however centres on a suicidal woman who leaves her marriage to a judge, only to be abandoned by her alcoholic lover; it was a West End hit in 1952, and beyond.

Rattigan, later Sir Terence, shows himself a master of dialogue and slowly unfolding plot in this neat three-act story, as over one day a host of characters parade through Hester Collyer’s crummy London flat. 

Despite being one of the most frequently performed community theatre musicals, Annie continues to be incredibly popular, with only a handful of seats remaining for Wanneroo Repertory’s production.

Capacity audiences have been joining 7C and their Physical Education teacher as they complete the Beep Test, in this relatively new musical by Conor Neylon and Jackson Peale.

A huge challenge for the performers, who spend much of the show extremely active and working up very realistic sweat, this short musical is a funny and sweet little surprise package, with endearing characters and a clever storyline. A lovely little twist in the tail takes this show to another level.

Here is an hour-long monologue performed with such directness and honesty that it compels attention.  Christopher Bryant, simply dressed as if he’s at the gym or about to go on a run, confides in the audience with an account, from various sources, of growing up gay.  Sometimes tentative, sometimes challenging, it’s part autobiography, part anecdotes from other sources; the show questions whether there is (to quote the program note) a ‘universality in the particulars of our [queer] experiences.’