Reviews

Harold Pinter’s renowned 1978 classic reveals the lies and infidelity swirling between a woman, her publisher husband, and his best friend, a literary agent.  Pinter famously tells the story backwards, beginning when the two now former lovers have a polite reunion and ending when the affair began a decade earlier. 

This rear vision makes the lies in both their marriages all the clearer - whether mistaking petty details or white fibs or the gross, fundamental lies.  We focus on these sliding truths, not any chronological melodrama.

The Australian Ballet have pulled out all the stops with their production of The Sleeping Beauty. The word I kept hearing at intervals was ‘exquisite’ and exquisite it was!

Last seen in Adelaide in 2018, it has not aged a day and looks as fresh as ever.

Western Theatrics’ We Will Rock You Young@Part, was a vibrant, high-energy production, that was well directed, smoothly executed and nicely polished but retaining enough edge to keep it feeling organic. It had its audience clapping and stamping along and crying out for more.

Bruised is a new play that uses a series of interconnected vignettes to examine climate change. Bitter-sweet but strong in its convictions without being morbid, it features a strong all female cast.

Written by Vivienne Glance, who also appears, the action centres around the participants at a presentation by a former astronaut, who uses her experiences as a call to action about climate change, then branches into the audience’s experiences, including immigration, bird watching and the overwhelming feelings faced by young people at their potential future.