Reviews

This is the most joy-filled, exuberant show I have seen all year.

Folk tale characters greet you warmly as you enter the theatre; one glance at the set transports you to fantasy land.

Director Michael Futcher and his merry band of players: Liz Buchanan, Dan Crestani, Eugene Gilfedder, Emma Pursey, Lucas Stibbard, Scott Witt, and Melanie Zanetti breathe life into eight of Grimms’ tales in their nineteenth century versions.

If it wasn’t for the kids Annie would not survive. This is one of the few musicals with a large cast of kids, and they get all the good songs. The adults have songs which are difficult to pull off and some scenes are not well written.

Lots of very unlikely things seem to happen to Busby McTavish.

The character  played by Garry McDonald finds a grenade in his living room, without any explanation as to how it got there, then even though there are children in the house decides to keep it in his lounge room.

His wife Sally, a former nun, is co-writing a trashy novel with a retired special commando – called Randy Savage – who has 12 positions of the karma sutra tattooed onto his muscled torso.

My Name is Rachel Corrieis a play based on the diaries and e-mails of Rachel Corrie, a young woman with a passion for the Palestinian cause in the Gaza Strip, that led to her violent death whilst protesting. To create the play Katherine Viner and Alan Rickman edited Rachel’s writing, which in places contains sharp enigmatic poetic imagery and sensitive insights.  It was first produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2005.