Reviews

If you’ve ever underestimated the power of paper, Club Origami will gently crumple that assumption, fold it into a crane, and launch it into the air with a wink and a twirl. Presented by Sydney Dance Company and Seven Circles as part of QPAC’s Out of the Box festival, this delightful show for little ones (and their grown-up guardians) is part contemporary dance and music, part interactive art installation, and entirely enchanting.

I may be a fully-grown adult woman, but it doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy Out of the Box at QPAC. The biennial festival for children eight years and under includes dozens of creative treats, with The Gruffalo taking centre stage at the Lyric Theatre. The musical brings Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s beloved picture book to life.

It’s 2019 in the little town of Appleton in the Southern Highlands and the annual show is coming up.  The big event is the Potato Race.  The blokes run around the oval hefting 50 kilo bags of spuds (potatoes are the main crop in Appleton).  The girls heft 20 kilo bags.  The race committee – Bev Armstrong (Shayne Francis), President and implacable conservative, and Barb Ling (Margot Knight), Secretary, sweetly reasonable, the peacemaker – have things well in hand.  But hometown girl Penny (Sharni Page) has just come back to be the town&rsqu

Sport for Jove’s version of one of Shakespeare’s least known plays, perhaps his darkest, was a surprise hit last year when staged outdoors in Sydney’s Leura Everglades.  Happily it’s now revived, briefly, in the cavernous York Theatre.