Reviews Archive

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). …

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 …

 Every Brilliant Thing has returned to Belvoir St, with Steve Rodgers as the Narrator of a raw, gentle and honest story that dares to speak about an issue that has touched – or will touch – nearly every one of us: mental …

This is a great story, well told by an all-Aboriginal cast, and one that should be much more familiar to us all. The stories passed down to us through history are not always strictly accurate, and that goes for the one about …