Carrie Kablean Archive

Big Girls Don’t Cry is a snapshot of Redfern in the 1960s, told from a First Nations perspective. Big things were on the horizon: the 1967 referendum, for one, but before that the upcoming 1966 Indigenous Debutante Ball to be held at …

This is a memory play says Tom at the beginning of The Glass Menagerie, as he promises to give ‘truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion’ and his soft-spoken recollections and the lyricism of Tennessee Williams’ words draw us into his story …

As director Neil Armfield notes in the program, to write and stage a play about the ‘inheritance of fascism in Spain might seem a massive reach’. And indeed, for those who know little or nothing of the Spanish Civil War, the Franco …

Monique is the mother-in-law from hell in David Williamson’s biting new comedy. She’s entitled, vain, manipulative, hypocritical, selfish and self-obsessed and who knows why her three adult sons have put up with her for his long, unless it’s just for the adoration …

It is a rare play that is both entertainingly funny yet also has such serious things to say. But Arrernte playwright Declan Furber Gillick’s Jacky, a snappy 100 minutes, certainly delivers. Jacky, played by Guy Simon, is a smart and enterprising young …

This is a play about ego and ambition, ignorance and fear. It is a story of corruption, deception, ignorance and fear. But also, friendships. And there are jokes, too. These aren’t my words – they are spoken by the actor Jamie Oxenbould …

  Acknowledging the inevitability of death seems to be all the rage at the moment, what with the TV series Swedish Death Cleaning and Ray Martin considering his burial/funeral options on his three-part doco on the ABC, but British playwright Laura Wade’s …

Melanie Tait’s new play is a comedy drama centred on Marion ‘Crawfie’ Crawford, the dedicated nanny/governess to the two little girls who would become better known to the world as Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret. Those who have an inkling of …

This production of Gaslight is a beautifully polished work that keeps audiences guessing – no mean feat for period drama. In their clever adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play, Johnna Wright and Patty Jamieson have kept the nuances of Victorian Gothic but …

What a lively and sparkling adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya this is. Joanna Murray-Smith has brought out the comedy in this tale of lives blighted by disillusionment and ennui without losing the melancholy underlying the tale. Her contemporary dialogue is so easy …