Reviews

The Barden Party, from NZ, can take a Shakespeare play, trim it, leave out characters, do some gender bending, add Bluegrass music songs and yet, amazingly, leave the play’s emotions and drama intact.  They do all that with their interpretation of Romeo and Juliet, but there’s comedy as well.  Tragedy it remains, but their Romeo and Juliet is also enormous fun.  With their Macbeth, the intent is more serious.  Adapted and directed by Laura Irish, the gender bending isn’t arbitrary or funny – it’s focussed and delib

Jennifer Willison is a director who finds plays that extend her cast and her audience. The Revlon Girl is no exception. It is a play about coping with fear and loss resulting from an unimaginable event.

In the little coal mining village of Aberfan in Wales on 21st October 1966 at 9.15am, a 34-metre-high tip of colliery spoil slid down a hillside above the town. The wet, black slurry engulfed a primary school and a village street killing 116 children and 28 adults.

Ghostlight

Following a number of one person shows from Black Swan in the past few years, notably Every Brilliant Thing, RGB – Of Many, One and Prima Facie, comes another excellent solo production. A new play from Australian actor and playwright Thomas Weatherall, this is heartfelt, moving and topical, and deals with sensitive and tragic issues while allowing optimism and moments of humor.