The terrifying thing about watching The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is that you suddenly understand how terrible things (such as the Holocaust) happened through a chain of seamless and ordinary events. In a perfect allegory, Bertolt Brecht wrote a…
Yes! My theatre stars aligned last night and I got to go and watch ‘The Beast‘ at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne. I had heard a lot of good things about this production, written by and starring Eddie Perfect, and…
Two Jews walk into a theatre. The title of this sublime theatre show was doubly misleading. Firstly, it suggested to me a light hour of comedy. Maybe two Jewish comedians doing a bit of stand-up. That’s somewhat my fault. There…
On a stormy night, a popular young blogger gatecrashes the life of mature age author Olivia, at a rural Michigan B&B. On the premise that he visits to convert his million-selling e-book, Sex With Strangers, into a screenplay, it seems…
Il Ritorno blends the physical spectacle of circus and the majesty of opera in a 75-minute retelling of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. There can be no doubt about the brilliance of the Circa ensemble. They flawlessly demonstrate numerous…
Melbourne Opera’s terrific new production of Tannhäuser rewards audiences with magnificent music and powerful performances by a cast of over 130 singers and musicians, superbly directed by Suzanne Chaundy. Richard Wagner’s masterpiece explores the struggle between saintliness and sin, virtue…
A wild rainy night on the Great Ocean Road. Harry franticly rushes into a nearby veterinary clinic with a bleeding animal wrapped in a sheet. He is met by Piper, an idealist American zoologist and her activist paramour and vet…
At the opening night of Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of Jasper Jones, the foyer was abuzz with champagne, photographers and various faces from the entertainment sphere. There was excitement in the air for this hugely anticipated adaptation of Craig Silvey’s…
We know about the likes of Peter Lalor at the Eureka Stockade. We know about the workers’ protests for an 8 hour working day. But did you know there were aboriginal resistance fighters within two hours of Melbourne? Who marched…
The theatre in Marlow’s time, or Shakespeare’s for that matter, was often blood-thirsty, gruelling and macabre. The plotting and scheming within Edward II’s court was no less ruthless. Writer Anthony Weigh has remastered Marlow’s play Edward II, and it is…