Reviews

Creative genius and the artists who possess it and spend their lives striving to create lived and performed experiences of it for us to share, often nests in the elusive realm of the impossible. The Theatre takes her prisoners – theatre makers and audiences alike – where our shared memories are often littered with flaws, mishaps, errors of judgement, indulgence, and unhappily unmet expectations.

Tomas Clifford Got Stood Up, winner of Fringe World’s Martin Sims Award for Best New Western Australian Work, returned for a single performance as part of the Perth Comedy Festival.

This highly polished fusion of stand-up, rock concert, biographical drama and musical, feels like it is being played in a much larger venue (think Arena Concerts) and keeps its audience highly engrossed throughout.

Drinking Habits is high farce with secrets, lost loves, people pretending to be someone else, lightning costume changes, hiding places behind doors, under the table and in a trunk, all contributing to the mayhem. The setting in a very small convent during prohibition in America aids the necessary misunderstandings.

This all singing, all dancing production is a great experience at Spotlight - part of their 70 years of bringing quality theatre to the Gold Coast.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s infectious score sets the pace for the story of Joseph to delight audiences of all ages.