Reviews

The Underground played an Encore Season as part of Fringe World’s encore weeks - transferring from the tiny Home Economics venue, to the very large Main Hall - and getting great sized audiences too. The premise of The Underground is a love story set in a very exclusive, invitation only club. It features lots of Latin dance, a huge amount of costumes, some sizzling vocals, a dash of comedy, a spot of audience participation, live percussion, a very impressive guest spot and a lot of heat.

Whale Fall looks at transitions across multiple generations, family dynamics, the human body and ecological change. An Australian family drama, set on the beach, the story plays against the story of a dying whale, as it slowly falls to the bottom of the ocean, to form a new biodiverse ecosystem.

Children of the Sea is a powerful theatrical work about survival and resistance, based on two years of research from writer/director Jay Emmanuel and interviews with over 60 survivors, border officials and human rights lawyers at Australian detention centres. Highly emotional and very moving, this powerfully presented piece is presented by Encounter and Performing Lines.

The team that has delivered such gems as The Girl That Jumped Off the Hollywood Sign and That Daring Australian Girl are back with their new offering The Reichstag is Burning. Having already well established themselves as award-winning writers and producers of the cabaret genre it is, perhaps, no surprise that their latest production invites the audience to spend the evening in the Katakombs Kabarett in the Weimar tradition.