Reviews

Stepping through the door into Judy’s, the audience is immediately met by the star and the show has already begun before we take our seats. A modest sized room, filled only with a single wall of bookcases, jam-packed with office and scientific paraphernalia, and simple seating around the other walls comprises the very intimate performance space. There is no fourth wall in this solo show and the minimal audience is immediately drawn into the proceedings and continually encouraged to interact throughout the show.

Have you ever wanted to kill someone?

This unsettling question sets the tone for a soul-searching analysis that leaves audiences questioning their own values and the nature of human darkness. Tonsils + Tweezers, by playwright Will O’Mahony, blends sharp humour with emotional depth in a surreal black-comedy about friendship and the lingering impact of the past.

The Dress is a compelling 90-minute two-hander that remains something of a hidden gem in Melbourne’s west.

What is the enduring appeal of this 1897 story so that it is told and retold?  A brilliant man – a wit, brimming with confidence, a poet eloquent in voice and writing, a fighter, a swordsman, hated by the jealous, admired by his friends – but inside he feels himself to be too ridiculously ugly to declare his love to the woman he adores.  And so, he makes love vicariously: on behalf of his rival, Christian.   it hurts but he is too much in love with Roxanne and with words to stop.  Is this a secret many men nurture in their hearts?