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‘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 …

This beguiling title, Pride and Prejudice (sort of), entices us to wonder what the “sort of” will deliver. We soon find out. Five women busy on stage, seemingly cleaning, ignore the audience as we take our seats. But it’s not long before we …

A delightful mix of impressive circus acts performed with engaging comic delivery kept hundreds of children gasping with awe throughout Pay no Attention, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus performances that sold out at the Sydney Opera House from July 4 to July …

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 …

  Paula Arundell has her audience spellbound in this clever and contemporary retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s short story The Birds, made famous by the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film. That film was set in California, du Maurier’s original took place in post-WWII …

  Steel Magnolias, with its whip-smart wit and female camaraderie, is the sort of play that will have you leaving the theatre smiling, and that is certainly the case with this production. It is set entirely within Truvy’s home-based beauty salon in …

‘Happiness is a choice. Even on bad days, we are lucky to be alive.’ These are among the closing remarks made by Eddie Jaku (enacted by Anton Berezin) as he relates his story of persecution, imprisonment and escapes, torture and near death …

Helene Hanff’s 1970 non-fiction book, 84 Charing Cross Road, is charmingly realised in this eponymously named play at the Ensemble with Erik Thomson and Blazey Best in the leading roles. In 1981, the book was adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans, …

  Who are we when we speak a language that isn’t our own? That is one question that Iranian American playwright Sanaz Toossi’s English subtly asks of its audiences. In Sydney, one of the most multi-lingual cities of the world, it is …

Pamela Rabe is the commanding and binding force in this ambitious adaptation of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel, which an interweb search variously describes as an ecofeminist, anti-authoritarian, animal-rights campaigning whodunit cum fable/fairytale. It is all of those things and Rabe, as the central …