Reviews

Now is a lyrical work that edges into what might be called Theatre of the Absurd.  It is a tale of parallel worlds: the quotidian, everyday world that we think is real, and another world, a world of the mind, called Now where imagination can make dreams come true.  At least, this is my understanding of Helene Tardif’s short play.

A young man, a Son (Andrew Drava) is seen by his parents – Father (Marc Opitz), an overworked advertising man, and melancholy Mother (playwright Helene Tardif) – as a lazy layabout. 

Between schools and community theatres, Perth theatre patrons have had a few opportunities in the last few years to see School of Rock. Despite this, Darlington Theatre Players’ incarnation feels fresh and fun.

Clocking up 33 years in the Australian comedy scene, comedian Dave Hughes’s observations have become part of Australia’s zeitgeist. Loveable larrikin “Hughesy” has been a regular fixture on the comedy circuit, television and radio since he started his career at 22 in Perth, Australia.

This Shakespearean comedy is often viewed as a problematic play because of the shades of misogyny that it exhibits in the treatment of the rebellious Katarina (Kian Pitman). In the story her resistance to adhering to norms of femininity that favour subservience and compliance, suggest that she requires taming by her money grabbing suitor Petruchio (JP Vizcay-Wilson).