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Engrossing, sad, beautiful, heartbreaking. This wonderful story of a Sri Lankan family torn apart by civil war is brilliantly performed by its multi-national cast, several of whom were in the fabulous Belvoir/Co Curious collaboration Counting and Cracking, which proved such an enormous …

‘Happy Days Are Here Again’ sing four red-nosed fairground clowns (aka Mandy Bishop, Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phil Scott) in the opening number of The Wharf Revue: Looking for Albanese. And for the 90 minutes of this hilarious revue, so they …

And they all lived happily ever after. Hardly a plot spoiler in the fairytale circumstances created by this Rodgers and Hammerstein confection of Cinderella, which in turn relies heavily on the 17th-century tale concocted by Charles Perrault. Disney has made that version …

So you think the butler did it? That’s the long-running surmise to the identity of the killer in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, which began its run in London in 1952 and is still going strong (having outlived Queen Elizabeth (RIP) and Britain’s …

Vidya Rajan’s stage version of Melina Marchetta’s Looking for Alibrandi is told, as it was in the original novel and in the 2000 film, from the viewpoint of  17-year-old Josie (Chanelle Macri) but as the two-hour play unfolds we find it is …

  I confess the name Rosalind Franklin meant nothing to me prior to hearing of Anna Zeigler’s Photograph 51, and I had never given a thought to the discoverers of DNA. Like so many scientific breakthroughs we all take for granted, the …

  Engaging from the first minute, Merlynn Tong’s Golden Blood is a journey into another world. At least, for most of us. Known only as ‘Girl’, we meet Tong’s character (yes, the playwright is also actor) as an abandoned 14-year-old in Singapore. …

  Joanna Murray-Smith’s A Doll’s House is an adaptation from the Henrik Ibsen classic. Fast forward 150 years, and her version of Nora is shopaholic, well-to-do housewife who might be living in Double Bay or Prahran. The Helmer living room is awash …

Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s tale of a university professor’s seduction of one of his students is hardly a new story, but it is so exquisitely told and enacted in this production directed by Petra Kalive that it is a delight from beginning …

Canadian playwright Adam Bock’s Before the Meeting is an astute and – perhaps inevitably – a rather sad examination of the after-effects of addiction. At its heart are remorse and compassion. Every day in a room a church basement, Gail (Jane Phegan) …