Reviews

What Rhymes with Cars and Girls is a rich, engrossing work in which all components come together with an inordinate sense of largesse and satisfying attention to detail. It is a very impressive first major directorial work from Clare Watson, who gives what was initially a boy’s story a good sense of balance. 

Piano Chick Does Sex & The Sixties is a 90 minute cabaret show in which singer/pianist Becky Blake and her five piece band deliver solid renditions of that swinging decade’s greatest hits, interspersed with some more uneven stand up material outlining the history of the sexual revolution.

As someone said to me after the show, ‘It’s probably best just to let it wash over you.’  Indeed, director & designer Jason Lehane says in a program note: ‘This is a work that one feels before one understands…’  True.  These two otherwise quite different pieces are verbally dense, layered, allusive and – if I dare say so – poetic.  They are highly imaginative, relentless and inaccessible to one’s ‘normal’ theatrical comprehension.  There are stories, but no plots; there are images, but they are m

Nakkiah Lui doesn’t need an elaborate set or fancy props or intricate lighting to tell her stories. She just needs her words, a good cast – and an audience who listens … because what she has to say is important. It isn’t earth shattering, or deeply philosophical. In fact it’s what most of us know already. What most of us know shouldn’t be happening. What most of us don’t do anything to change.