Archive for 'Theatre Reviews'
[FILM: Review] The Great Lie Of The Western World
The Great Lie Of The Western World Until April 29 / Tap Gallery **** This understated play digs deep to produce a remarkably honest, cogent and compelling theatre experience. The premise sees Simon and Fiona (Alistair Powning and Kate Skinner), a long-term couple, slowly coming unstuck as adult stresses – their pursuit of ‘great (middle-class) [...]
Posted: April 15th, 2012 under Arts, Brag 457 (April 9), Theatre Reviews.
Tags: Alistair Powning, Cathode Ray Tube, Jessica Donoghue, Kate Skinner, Michael Booth, Roslyn Helper, TAP Gallery, The Brag, The Great Lie of the Western World
[THEATRE: Review] Every Breath
Every Breath Until April 29 / Belvoir St Theatre ** In his program notes, Every Breath writer and director Benedict Andrews says, ‘When I was writing the play, I never thought about what it was about per se’. Well, to be frank, he should have thought about it a bit more. The play centres on [...]
Posted: April 9th, 2012 under Arts, Brag 456 (April 2), Theatre Reviews.
Tags: Angie Milliken, Belvoir St Theatre, Dylan Young, Eloise Mignon, Every Breath, John Howard, Roslyn Helper, The Brag
[THEATRE: Review] This Is Our Youth
This Is Our Youth March 14-25 / Sydney Opera House *** Sydney Opera House are pretty good at bringing the celebrity, but I can’t remember the last time they had a real tent-pole theatre ‘event’ like their ten-day season of This Is Our Youth. Obscuring the names of acclaimed theatre director Mark Brokaw and playwright [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2012 under Arts, Brag 455 (March 26), Theatre Reviews.
Tags: Dee Jefferson, Emily Barclay, Keiran Culkin, Kenneth Lonergan, Mark Brokaw, Michael Cera, The Brag, This Is Our Youth
[THEATRE: Review] The Table of Knowledge
The Table of Knowledge Until March 24 / Carriageworks **** n Theatre The Table of Knowledge Until March 24 / Carriageworks Political theatre can be about as subtle as a punch to the face, but the crew behind Version 1.0 have been around long enough now to know what works and what doesn’t. And [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2012 under Arts, Brag 455 (March 26), Theatre Reviews.
Tags: CarriageWorks, Rosyln Helper, The Brag, The Table of Knowledge, Version 1.0
[DANCE: Review] 2 One Another
2 One Another Runs until March 31 **** It’s opening night speeches, and the ever-dazzling, white-shirted Rafael Bonachela seems to hover behind his podium, halfway up the grand white staircase that graces the Sydney Theatre foyer. Below, an adoring crowd soaks in every charmingly accented word, as he reveals that before 2 One Another had [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2012 under Arts, Brag 454 (March 19), Performance/Dance, Theatre Reviews.
Tags: 2 One Another, Rosyln Helper, Sydney Dance Company, Sydney Theatre, The Brag