Amazing Companies that support Aussie Theatre:
The Poof Downstairs was, well, downstairs in the Visy Theatre at the Brisbane Powerhouse, oddly surrounded by a photography exhibition of middle aged lesbians going about their daily lives. It was ANZAC eve and The Powerhouse was a ghost town; there was an air of foreboding as just twelve or…
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To dance is one of life’s great gifts. It is the physical metamorphosis of emotion too intense to contain within the body. Be it joy, sadness, fear or pain, to dance is to be free, and those who dance well have the capacity to convey their own story through movement.…
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State Theatre Company artistic director Geordie Brookman has collaborated with playwright Joanna Murray-Smith to place Henrik Ibsen’s 19th century play Hedda Gabler in a modern setting. And it works. The relationships, manipulations, jealousy and psychological games still ring true, and the story from then resides soundly in the now. Hedda doesn’t love…
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Perth’s 2013 International Comedy Festival has attracted some of the best acts from around Australia and the world and if the Gala Opening is anything to go by Perth is in for a hilarious three weeks. The evening offered a smorgasbord of what is in store for audiences over the coming…
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Since opening in 1970 Company has won a swag of Tony awards and been reinvented by directors all over the world. The contemporary, middle class themes and the fast pace of the show make it accessible to a wide audience, but especially to the traditional “theatre-going” demographic. Company is the…
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What is a diva? A supremely talented super woman? A difficult, tantrum-throwing, chart-topping singer? The female version of a hustler? Well, as Trevor Ashley proves in his return season of I’m Every Woman, a diva is all these things and much more. In typical diva style, Ashley took to the stage…
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A Clockwork Orange is currently touring Australia, an import from the UK. Inspired by an exploration of the concept of the adolescent boy, the ensemble is exclusively male, and exceedingly physical; in transition between scenes and in some scenes entirely, the work steps over to become dance theatre. A valid question…
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I’ll always see a new Joanna Murray-Smith play. She’s one of Melbourne’s most commercially successful playwrights and she writes terrific jokes about being middle class in Melbourne. Her latest, True Minds at the MTC, is the theatrical equivalent of a black-and-white romcom that you’re happy to watch every time it’s repeated on…
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When the techie has to start the applause at the end of a show, you know it wasn’t a good night. I missed the super supportive opening night of Red Stitch’s About Tommy, so saw it with regular punters and it was one of those nights when something was missing. Tommy is…
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Le Foulard (or The Veil) is a somewhat ominous title for a play, let alone that dreaded theatrical angst receptacle, the one-woman-show. Having nothing but the poster to go by, I came expecting to grit my teeth and endure an hour of Simone de Beauvoir-infused interpretive dance peppered with meaningful…
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