Amazing Companies that support Aussie Theatre:
The naughtiest Circus is in Town! Polytoxic Dance Theatre’s latest ‘mongrel mash-up of technicolour theatricality’, The Rat Trap has transformed QTC’s Bille Brown Studio into a Cabaret Tiki Bar where the audience in lock-down are at the mercy of the burlesque rat pack. This colourfully chaotic production with it’s sexy, talented troupe,…
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Cyber-love soapie-tragedy begins 2012 tour with a sharp dagger to the gut. I Love You, Bro began its 2012 tour last week at the Street Theatre Canberra with enormous energy and vigour. A simple and striking set (Renee Mulder) allowed the audience to sit around the stage and close to the…
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While it is thrilling that Australia is rapidly becoming recognised as a great place to try out Broadway shows, and that our actors and creatives are considered to be of a high standard, and it is wonderful to see world premieres of shows happening right here in our own backyard,…
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Eve Langley, the subject matter of the semi-biographical Eve was a mid-twentieth century Australian writer who struggled against the shackles of the “feminine function”. She was eccentric by today’s standards but insane by the standards of her day; she took to dressing as a man and changed her name to…
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When actors have so much life that their presence fills such a small, intimate performing space and the audience is in stitches from the very first line, there isn’t a sliver of doubt that you’re going to enjoy the show. This is precisely what Damon Lockwood (as producer/director/writer/actor) achieved with…
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Written by Sydney-based Rick Viede, A Hoax won the Griffin award in 2011, and now Griffin Theatre have collaborated with La Boite Theatre to present the World Premiere of A Hoax. The concept behind this provoking four-hander play about a fabricated story written under a fake pseudonym was inspired by…
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A small circus company from Brisbane is doing big things at Her Majesty’s Theatre this week. Stepping away from garish big tops and Cirque-du-Soliel–style-extravaganzas, Yaron Lifschitz’s Circa is stripping back circus art to its bare bones and the results are astonishing. The human body is pushed to the limit, and stunts, rather than…
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Is there anything wrong with seeing a safe, predictable yet entertaining piece of theatre? I quite like to know that after a long day I can see something that will me away from my every day world, will make me laugh and will keep me entertained. Yes, there are times…
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reasons to be pretty was the first of prolific film and theatre writer Neil LaBute’s plays to find a home on a Broadway stage, at the Lyceum Theater in 2009. A sort of relative of his other works – considered part of a thematic trilogy with successful plays The Shape…
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Vikram and the Vampire is the first offering by Zen Zen Zo’s new artistic director’s Michael Futcher and Helen Howard. Formerly known as The King and the Corpse, this work has evolved from the duo’s 1995 production which was originally adapted from ancient Hindu tales from India. The overall arc of…
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