Carrie Kablean Archive

These two Australian coming-of-age stories both ask, in different ways, for us to take a fresh look at ourselves, how we see ourselves and each other. First up is:  The Sorry Mum Project, written and performed by Pippa Ellams. Mothers are embarrassing, …

I went to Outdated with some trepidation, fearing yet another unlikely ‘love blossoms in the autumn years’ a la Best Exotic Marigold Hotel or some such. What a wonderfully happy relief to find it is not! Written and directed by Mark Kilmurry, …

Good news for all those who missed out on tickets for The Wharf Revue: Good Night and Good Luck at the Opera House. There is to be an encore season at the Seymour Centre from 24 March to 24 April. 2020 gave …

‘All for one and one for all’, that’s the pledge Susan, Frances, Elizabeth and Jackie make each other as schoolgirls. We meet them as adolescents, wondering about the facts of life and how best to rile their art teacher. The girls are …

Adapted by Steve Rodgers and performed by Ben Wood, Kenny is not so much a retelling of the 2006 feelgood movie – tag-lined a ‘knight in shining overalls’ – but an excellent 80-minute corollary to it. Director Mark Kilmurry hit upon the …

What a joy to be once more in a theatre and entertained, in this case by the super-slick cast and crew of Pippin. Billed as a musical, Pippin is more than that: it is also part magic show part cabaret and part …

A riot of sharp humour and farce from beginning to end, No Way? No Pay! is an absolute standout. Director Sarah Giles is an adept at comedy (as anyone who saw 2018’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist can attest) and the stellar cast …

Is there irony in David Williamson’s final play having euthanasia and death as one of its themes? Or a little black humour, perhaps? Either way, Crunch Time centres on Steve, a successful businessman with a loving wife and two adult sons who …

The things we do for love. Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam is an adaptation – by actor-writer Steve Rodgers  – of a Peter Goldsworthy novella (1993), which I have not read. I wonder if I had, would I find myself more …

Marta Dusseldorp is wonderful as Hester Collyer in this STC production of The Deep Blue Sea, ably directed by Paige Rattray and which commands attention from the outset with its imposing and memorable set and sound design (David Fleischer and James Brown). …