Reviews

With more than 50 years as a leader in offering professional training for actors, directors and playwrights, the Flinders Drama Centre production of The Trouble with Harry is the perfect vehicle to showcase graduates of their intensive industry-ready program. With alumni including actors Amber McMahon and Noni Hazlehurst, and internationally acclaimed director Scott Hicks, the centre has an impressive reputation for preparing skilled and versatile theatre company members, and this show is yet another example.

One man shows have the possibly of being exceedingly boring, however, this performance in Every Brilliant Thing by actor Jason Klarwein had the audience wanting more.

Klarwein commenced his performance on the sparse but compact in-the-round-set, by getting off his chair in the audience and communicating in a normal voice. There was no grand drum-roll entrance, nor did he try to impress with Richard Burton-like vocals. Klarwein, casually dressed, simply talked to us. 

Welcome to the world of gay throuples in New York. S. Asher Gelman is the writer, director and choreographer of this hit play about a married gay couple who take in a third lover. Gelman knows the deal well – he lives in New York with both his husband and his partner, plus two cats.

“An afternoon’s beautiful journey into night” was how SXS’s fresh and new Artistic Director Tim Munro described HUSH, the first of a series of three SXS gigs this year at QPAC. HUSH was an unusual but inspired choice – a carefully curated mix of quiet, contemplative pieces to soothe the soul. Perfect for a Sunday afternoon. You know you are in for a treat when the Grammy-award-winning flautist also has a melodica in his kit bag, and the afternoon’s presentation features guest artist, guitarist Karin Schaupp.