Reviews

I firmly believe that if people who say they don't like opera were to watch this production of The Magic Flute, there would be a lot more opera lovers, as it would be difficult not to love this production. Sung in English, it tells a clear, interesting story, is easy to follow and a joy to watch.

Alexander Lewis is gorgeously likeable as the boyish, sweetly voiced, prince, Tamino, perfectly paired with Katya Webb as the princess Pamina, whose lovely voice is matched by a captivating performance.

Just a few days shy of his 21stbirthday, Jordy Shea enjoyed the thrill of a positive audience response to the premiere of his first play, that appropriately taps into many issues affecting young people.

It’s been a while is a one act play about a group of friends who take a holiday on the beach to celebrate the end of school.

The hedonism has authenticity, as the teenagers revel in their new found adult freedom to sample some of life’s elicit pleasures.

There are five on the trip which proves to be an awkward number.

Forty years ago Australian composers Peter Pinne and Don Battye created the musical Sweet Fanny Adams, an unashamedly simple tale of two Sydney brothel madams, Fanny Adams and Kitty Lang, filled with lots of toe-tapping songs. Billed as a musical romp through the seedier side of Sydney in the 1930s, the two lead characters are loosely on the infamous underworld Sydney madams Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh (recently profiled in Channel Nine’s Underbelly: Razor).

The Flock and the Nest serves the purpose of stunning learning vehicle and great showpiece of what can be accomplished when a theatre company collaborates with a school on a purpose-written text by a spirited young Playwright.