Carrie Kablean Archive

Snowflake gets off to a somewhat gentle start, with Andy (James Lugton) bemoaning things ain’t what they used to be – and dropping a few names (Terry Scott, Esther Rantzen) – that might be familiar to Ensemble audiences but are likely to …

This show opens, fittingly enough, to a stage empty except for a spotlit red leather Sherrin, symbol of the game and the AFL’s ball of choice. Strong is the New Pretty is an entertaining and fast-moving summary of the struggle to have …

Helen Thomson blasts through The Unfriend like a tornado in suburban London in this very British farce that gleefully skewers some of the worst (and instantly recognisable) traits of the English and the Americans. A generalisation, but you’ll see what I mean. …

  Did Henry VIII’s wives ever have this much fun? I shouldn’t think so. Being married to that particular tyrant was never going to be easy! SIX is back in Sydney and giving voice (and what spectacular voices they are) to the …

  Cirque Alice is breathtakingly good fun, pure entertainment for all ages. Drawing on Lewis Carroll’s famous characters, we are invited to join Alice and venture down the rabbit hole to meet the Tweedles, the Caterpillar, the Queen of Hearts and various …

  Eloise Snape’s play The Elevator raises some interesting questions and does so – at times – with some very funny lines. She highlights the difficulties women face when trying to keep pace with big business (and big tech) empires and juggle …

Put three near strangers in a boat, all of whom have healthy egos, keep them cooped up on said boat for weeks and tensions are bound to arise. And that’s exactly what happens in The Shark is Broken, a 90-minute (mostly) comedic …

‘It doesn’t mean anything, it’s just fun!’ declares nine-year-old (‘almost 10’) Thomas Klopper at the end of this feel-good little tale that Belvoir has revived after its debut 16 years ago. Of course, it’s more than ‘just fun’ as Thomas has to …

Loosely based on the opera Carmen, and using Bizet’s score as inspiration, Matthew Bourne’s sultry ballet The Car Man is an exciting version of that tale of seduction and murder. Instead of Seville, the action is set in the 1950s, in a …

If this play ever comes to Sydney, grab yourself a ticket immediately. It’s called 1536 because that was the year that Henry VIII decided, on spurious grounds, to have his wife’s head chopped off, but this is not a history lesson as …