Theatre Archive

Angry. Impassioned. Raw. Intense. Meyne Wyatt’s part-autobiographical City of Gold is all of these things, and more. Barely disguised as the play’s main character, 20-something actor and Wongi man Breythe, this is Wyatt’s  yell of rage and pain about what it is …

It is rare and wonderful to find theatre as powerful and engrossing as this pared-down and passionate production of Arthur Miller’s classic. It is mesmerising from start to finish. Set in the 1950s in Brooklyn’s docklands, it is an explosive family drama that …

The Torrents is a vignette of an Australia of yesteryear, even the sepia-coloured tones of Renee Mulder’s wonderful and detailed set seem redolent of an old photograph. It has an interesting history. Director Clare Watson describes it as the “one that got …

25 August 1944. Only a handful of people knew it, but Paris was about to be razed, its nearly 2 million inhabitants annihilated. Hitler was out for yet more vengeance; if he couldn’t have Paris – and the Allied troops were at …

Trevor has tasted potential stardom – he appeared in a pilot with a celebrity called Morgan Fairchild – and now, as an adult actor, he is hungry for fame. All he needs is a break, right? Mom Sandra is his greatest supporter. …

Engrossing from start to finish, this dream team combo or writer Andrew Bovell and director Neil Armfield – plus an excellent cast – is a must-see. It’s about family. An ‘ordinary’ family. One most of us can relate to. What they will …

  Murder on the Wireless is a huge serve of nostalgia, harking back to the days when entertainment came via the radio and aural plays were the thing. A few lucky people had black and white TV – certainly not colour – …

In an era when one can be famous for just about anything, who would pass up the chance of cashing in on someone else’s tragedy if it meant a career-defining, multi-million-dollar book deal? Just for being at the right place at the …

There’s the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And then there is the legal truth. Which is often a patriarchal affair. Sheridan Harbridge is awesome in this one-hander that highlights the bias against the female in sexual assault cases. She’ll …

  Inescapable fact: We’re all gonna die. Indisputable fact: The ‘death industry’, ie. those good folk helping the bereaved arrange funerals is massive (well, there’s always a demand – and just think of all those times you’ve heard ads exhorting you to …