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[Published in The Age, November 26 2012] FOUR STARS Los Angeles is fast-forwarding towards doomsday. The dream factory churns out a nightmarish reality, a world where the talk show host is the prophet: ”Everything gets too big and then it ends.” Playwright Declan Greene melds the pop cultural obsessions of his work in trash theatre […]
October 26, 2012
[Published in the Age, October 26 2012] FOUR STARS FOR a play that reminds us we are each hurtling towards death, German-UK hellraisers Gob Squad’s latest work is astoundingly life-affirming. A glass tank constructed from one-way mirrors houses a group of child actors. They are seemingly unaware of the audience looking on, but their youthful […]
March 5, 2012
[Published on Beat.com.au, March 5 2012] Written in 1888, Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck epitomizes modernist naturalism. In this adaptation director Simon Stone (of The Hayloft Project) takes Ibsen’s text and distils it to its dramatic essence, transposing Ibsen’s exploration of family, greed, jealousy and paternal inheritance into the present day. What immediately becomes apparent […]
October 3, 2011
[Published on Beat.com.au, October 3 2011] Back to Back are a company known for their confronting approach to performance, and their latest offering, Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, is no exception. The play generated much controversy before its premiere, with the Council of Indian Australians calling to have it removed from the Melbourne Festival programme. […]
July 20, 2011
[Published in Beat, Issue 1278, July 20 2011] When conjuring an image of the Romantic hero, Paul Capsis is not the first person who springs to mind. Best known for his career in cabaret, Capsis’ larger-than-life stage persona is about as far removed from these nature-loving aesthetes – epitomised by your Byrons, your Wordsworths or […]
July 13, 2011
[Published in Beat, Issue 1277, July 13 2011] There’s a scraping at your bedroom window as you try, in vain, to fall asleep. Something moves in the shadows, just beyond your vision’s reach. Is that sound the echo of footsteps? Or is it just the thunder of your pounding heart? No matter whether these threats […]
March 29, 2011
[Published on Beat.com.au, March 29 2011] Three couples lay sprawled across the ground, their silhouettes barely visible against the dark and empty room. A singular light emanates from a set of turntables by the wall. Blaring mechanical sounds serrate the uncannily still air. As flashes begin to pulse from a series of off-kilter neons, the […]
January 26, 2011
[Published in Beat, January 26 2011] The tale of Giovanni and Annabella, the doomed protagonists of ‘ Tis Pity She’s a Whore , is a tragedy to rival that of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers. Set in the Italian city of Parma, playwright John Ford pits the innocence and purity of the couple’s affections against a world of moral […]
November 26, 2012
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