Reviews

Crocodiles lie low in the water, unnoticed yet visible; in this new show, the co-founder of Elbow Room Theatre, director Marcel Downey, has crafted a visual and colourful palette of characters reflecting on the hidden world of Aged Care - examined with dramatic humour. It explores the core themes of modern society bound by class and race.

The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of SA continues their run of audience pleasers with the iconic audition musical, A Chorus Line, with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban and a book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante.

The Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical began performances on Broadway at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre July 25, 1975 before officially opening October 19, 1975. When it closed 15 years later, it was the longest-running show in Broadway history, having played 6,137 performances.

Adrift is cross section of contemporary life with all its debilitating doubts, dangerous certainties, embedded anxieties, niggling frustrations, necessary evasions and misplaced rage.  Or, as Freud put it, ‘civilisation and its discontents’.  In snapshot grabs, the characters are locked in combat.  Most demand that others change – for their own good.  The conflicts are absurd – but not that absurd. 

Worstward Ho is not a play, it is ‘prose’ – that is, not written in 1981 as a play to be performed by an actor.  Robert Meldrum and Richard Murphet thought otherwise and over three years, they have been ‘decoding’ (Murphet’s term) it so as to render Beckett’s difficult text clear in performance – but without diminishing its difficulty.