Reviews Archive

REVIEW: HOLDING THE MAN, BELVOIR ST

Eighteen years after it premiered at The Stables in 2006 (after which it had runs all around Australia, including the Opera House, then in London’s West End and was made into a film), Tommy Murphy’s adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s 1995 memoir Holding the …

REVIEW: TIDDAS AT BELVOIR ST THEATRE

At its heart, Tiddas is a play about friendship. Five forty-something women who have known each other from their schooldays in Mudgee and now live in Brisbane, meet once a month for their Book Club, which – like most book clubs – …

REVIEW: THE MASTER AND MARGARITA AT BELVOIR ST

‘Are you ready?’ asks the Narrator (Matilda Ridgway) at the beginning. We are, but perhaps not totally prepared for the madcap melodrama, magic and mayhem that is about to unfold in this wildly ambitious realisation of one of Russian literature’s bravest works. …

REVIEW: THE LOST BOYS AT THE SEYMOUR CENTRE

Inspired by J.M. Barrie’s classic text Peter and Wendy, Little Eggs Collective’s The Lost Boys creates a tumultuous world in which a group of preteens navigate an everlasting realm ruled by a boy king who thrives on volatility. A sixty-minute explosion of …

REVIEW: WHARF REVUE AT THE SEYMOUR CENTRE

Thank goodness for the Wharf Revue, which still manages to make us laugh in a world that is full of terrible news headlines, wars and promises of doom. Thank goodness for the cleverness and wit riddling through songs and sketches which make …