27 stories by "Keith Gow"
New writing for theatre often goes through a lengthy development process before an audience sees it on stage. Lonely Company's two-night Beta Fest: Theatre in Various States of Undress is go…
A tycoon moves to Washington DC to use his money to influence politics and politicians. When the Melbourne Theatre Company announced they were staging Garson Kanin’s 1940s polit…
Chekhov's Uncle Vanya explores the boredom of a few wasted lives playing out on a Russian country estate. It is variously described as a comedy or a tragedy, which heavily depends on the pro…
Ginny (Bessie Holland) is growing up in Chitole, a small town where the locals – both Indigenous and non-Indigenous – don't accept her as Aboriginal because of her light skin. Sh…
Catherine and Irene have been friends for a long time, but after Catherine's experience of domestic violence, the two friends begin to drift apart. Deafferent's production of Black is the Co…
Menage begins, as most trysts might, with a chance meeting, a text message, and a phone call and it continues on to an intimate encounter in a bedroom. An audience of two hears intimate stor…
"Hooray and up she rises, Hooray and up she rises" chant the working women of Rome to celebrate Caesar's victory and her return to the capital. Soon, though, Caesar is warned to "Beware the …
Who is the best James Bond? It's a question that has plagued us since the time someone-other-than-Sean Connery played the role. Shaken is pitched as Baritones Belting Bond and the songs are …
Not Another Indie Cabaret is another indie cabaret, but Jessamae St James knows that and plays with your expectations. Jessamae describes herself as low-level clusterfuck, who has trouble wi…
You're outside a bar in North Melbourne. It's cold, you're wearing a scarf and a stranger gives you a pair of headphones to put on. There's a woman at a tram stop and you're told to follow h…
Bron Batten has dated men all over the world. Now that she's tried online dating, which she describes as "squeezing the rancid bowels of the internet", she's decided to try onstage dating. A…
A theatre company is putting on a new play that sounds almost exactly like Hamlet, but does this play meet the needs of its shareholders? Is the play itself worth doing or can it also find a…
Struan Logan is a Scottish comedian who has spent a year in Australia performing stand up. His visa is about to run out. His visa is so close to running out, he might be kicked out of the co…
Remember high school parties? The Awkward Years wants you to remember the drinking, the pashing, the dancing, the flirting, the vomit and the most embarrassing thing you did as a teenager. T…
After surviving a near-fatal fishing trip, three blokes are desperate to change their ways of life. But not too much. The Beast premiered in 2013, a commission by the Melbourne Theatre Compa…
Deborah's husband has just retired and while he's busy with his new found lease on life, Deb has discovered the love of a good book. Roger Hall's 1999 play, The Book Club, is a show that see…
It's Christmas and Laura is visiting her grandmother; athough this year it doesn't feel like Christmas " for either of them. Laura and Mummi stare at each other across the intimate traverse …
After discovering Alice Tovey's Malice at last year's Melbourne Fringe festival, I was really excited to see what she would come up with next. Malice was Alice belting out tunes with Ned Dix…
Sing On Through Tomorrow is a collection of composer/performer Matthew Lee Robinson's earliest work; songs that first appeared in his cabaret shows, along with selections from his first full…
Catherine is living the in shadow of her father, Robert, a mathematical genius, who has recently died. David Auburn's Proof is an exploration of her grief, his mental illness and what Cather…
Songs for a New World is not quite a musical, but is more than a collection of songs. Composer Jason Robert Brown, best known for The Last Five Years, Parade and The Bridges of Madison Count…
Los Angeles. 1930s. Dark suits. Platinum blondes. And a man who tells us he knows how to get away with murder and make a little money on the side. Insurance agent Walter Huff (Leon Ford) hea…
After performing pantsless in Asking For It, Adrienne Truscott is wrestling with the question "Am I a comedian (sorry, comedienne) or am I a performance artist?" Like Zoe Coombs Marr …
It's Women's Week on Channel 8 and you're about to spend some time with the stars and guests of their morning television show Brunch. Good Morning Mofo is a collection of characters t…
Dave (Zoe Coombs Marr) just wants to tell jokes, but after his last show, he got a lot of hate from feminists on Twitter. So this time around he's going to do something that can't offend any…
