Can theatre ever pull off a convincing stage death?
Playwrights love a dramatic death scene – but stage trickery is rarely good enough for the audience to suspend disbeliefJane Howard
Playwrights love a dramatic death scene – but stage trickery is rarely good enough for the audience to suspend disbeliefJane Howard
It confounds any effort to categorise it, but in that lies a certain freedom to relish every disparate elementJane Howard
The audience become the key players in this playful, intelligent retelling of the Pied Piper of HamelinJane Howard
Fearless, faultless and shamelessly flirtatious, this contemporary circus is sexy and it knows itJane Howard
Jane Howard: In the quiet company of strangers, Samuel Beckett's play finds the stillness it needs to be understoodJane Howard
The Arch, Holden Street Theatres, AdelaideIn Five Point One's premiere of Ben Brooker's The Lake, we find ourselves in some sort of post-apocalyptic world. Karl (Matt Crook) and Joseph (Brad…
Theatre Works, Melbourne Festival This dizzying adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Grey offers different perspectives to each member of the audienceRoom of Regret is theatre to prompt quest…
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival TheatrePlaywright John Doyle mixes comedy and pathos to expose the lack of nuance in the science v religion debateThere is a beautiful video of the annou…
What makes something a new Australian work? Belvoir's production of Angels in America suggests it's not always the text Continue reading...