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I went to Outdated with some trepidation, fearing yet another unlikely ‘love blossoms in the autumn years’ a la Best Exotic Marigold Hotel or some such.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 …

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). …

This is a great play, absolutely relevant for our times, enacted by a fabulous cast under Lee Lewis’s sure direction for Griffin. Playwright David Williamson – in what he has said will be his final play (but we’ve heard that before) – …

  Part cabaret and part sketch revue, The Recidivists is very, very silly – and I mean that in the nicest possible way. Comedians (and writers) Rob Johnson and Harrison Milas ask, without attempting to answer, such existential questions as ‘Why do …