15 stories by "Kevin Turner"
Pursued By Bear burst onto the Melbourne Musical Theatre scene back in 2013 with a critically acclaimed production of Next To Normal. Since then, the team have produced well received, high q…
I am  a 24 year-old male with no intention of having children. At its core, The Distance is about being a mother; I'm not its audience. With that out of the way, I can say that I perso…
You can throw every interesting colour you want into the mixing pot but throw in too many any it'll always come out brown. MTC's Neon festival saw Dirty Pretty Theatre's The Lonely Wolf (or …
Iago is Western Edge Youth Arts quintessentially Melbournian adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello. The short run currently at the Malthouse is the second iteration of the work after a rural t…
Sexy Dead Schoolboys, written by Lindsay Templeton and Jake Stewart and directed also by Stewart, really doesn’t seem to give much of a shit " in the best way. Opening the show by shat…
Stop Kiss by playwrite Diane Son was first seen off-Broadway in 1998. An almost desperate need to appear “real” and naturalistic cause strong performances to fall flat in B…
The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland by UK-based theatre company Ridiculusmus open tonight at the Arts House Meat Market. Kevin Turner sat down with Co-Artistic Director David…
Melbourne University Shakespeare Company are doing a brave thing over at The Guild Theatre by taking on Hamlet they tackle, perhaps, the Bard’s most well known play. It’s huge, u…
I wasn't familiar with The 39 Steps (the film or this play that's based on the film) but I had heard an awful lot about it: “Outrageously funny”, “Fast Paced” and …
Once more into the breach my friends. This time I'm sitting nervously in the atrium before Bell Shakespeare’s Henry VÂ and it’s brought it to my attention that the run time is …
Opshop is a young, vibrant and fun work created by up and coming young, vibrant and fun company The Bloom. Written and directed by Monash-spawned theatre maker James O’Donoghue, Opshop…
Australian Shakespeare Company, to use the most overused quote of the piece (and your marketing tagline), “to thine own self be true”. Your outdoor works are engaging, accessible…
A technically brilliant satire on the American political machine, The Speechmaker drips with the larrikinish Aussie wit we would expect from Working Dog, but, despite its technical prowes…
Orphans wasn’t exactly what I expected to find when I walked into the sprawling and maze-like first floor venue that Q44 operate out of, but it fit perfectly. My Saturday night at the …
A good performer, circus or otherwise, doesn’t let their mistakes get the better of them. A great performer owns their mistakes and uses them to better engage their audience. Left, win…
