Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens are the perfect setting over summer for audiences of all ages to enter the magical world down on the riverbank in The Australian Shakespeare Company’s The Wind In The Willows. Seated on a soft, grassy incline,…
If you have ever considered renouncing goodness and training to become a demon, The Screwtape Letters is a great place to start. Based on The Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis’s popular satire, it concerns the letters between an elder…
Women in khaki. Long, hot, hours tending to the sick and wounded in a desert hospital, with scant resources. Calls home where you can’t speak to your children. The challenges of enlistment in the early 20th century in a Victorian country…
Are you a retro formal dress fanatic? Do you love Australian stories told in song and dance? Do you have youthful memories of working retail over the summer holidays? All these things are to be found in Queensland Theatre Company’s Ladies…
Early Grave, Fashionably Late is the closest experience I’ve had as a theatregoer to watching a (Victorian period) action blockbuster movie. To my plus one, it felt like reading a pulp Penny dreadful. In combination, it manages to be at…
Reviving the classic tale of cross-cultural illicit love in 1929s North Vietnam, Laurence Strangio’s long-awaited adaptation of this tale of transgressive love is immaculately rendered in The Lover, showing for only three nights as part of La Mama Theatre’s Explorations…
‘What’s Yours is Mine‘, produced by independent theatre company Hotel Now, is intelligent and funny. Inspired by Chekhov’s The Proposal, ‘What’s Yours Is Mine’ explores the themes of greed, possession, ownership and excess throughout Australia’s history and popular culture. The…
Do you have a thing for musicals? Are you feeling nostalgic for a good old house party? Then you need to get yourself down to fortyfivedownstairs and buy a ticket for ‘The Gathering‘. Written by Will Hannagan and Belinda Jenkin,…
Riot Stage, the production company behind ‘F.‘, is a youth theatre company that gives kids access to the arts and tells their stories through performance. ‘F.’ addresses what it is like to be a teenager in this day and age….
Eighty years ago, an unholy matrimony of Hollywood and a church group begat Reefer Madness, a morality tale dressed as a dramatic film. A dire warning to parents worldwide of the demonic perils of marijuana. It would have faded into…