Reviews

A lively, fun-filled show full of heart.

Danielle Faour shares anecdotes about growing up Lebanese-Australia with pride and humour. She touches on a range of issues from arranged marriages to unwanted body hair, speaking frankly about her own experiences.

Audience participation is strongly encouraged, with plenty of opportunities to practise your “Leb-clap” and sing along to daggy pop songs. We even got to play “Lebo Family Feud” with the coveted prize of wax strips.

The Encounter tells the story of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre and his experience spending time with the Mayoruna people deep within the Brazilian Amazon.

Based on Petru Popescu’s book, Amazon Beaming, co-founder of the company Complicite Simon McBurney endeavours to ask the hard questions:

How much of what we experience permeates our grey matter?

Do we filter facts by how they affect us personally?

How important is time, or rather does time exist at all?

Snakes and Ladders is an Australian play by Tony Moore. A show for three actresses, it is a story about family relationships, academia and a game of Snakes and Ladders.

KADS’ production is set in a cosy living room created by Geoff Rumsey. Nicely finished, the set is solidly built with ring of truth detail. The stage was warmly lit by Stephen Marr (although there was perhaps a little too much spill into the first two rows) with effective sound design by Lindsay Goodwin.

Gentlemen Incorporated is a slightly risqué Australian play by Deborah Mulhall, being presented by Darlington Theatre Players.

When Marcus returns from overseas travels, he decides to crash at his friend George’s place. George is running a male escort business from home, and when Marcus decides to help out with the business a complex web of coincidences engulf both men, Marcus’ mother, his girlfriend and her boss.