It was a joyful, demanding, emotionally churning play that doesn’t go away at its end but leaves so much to think about afterwards.
Adelaide Reviews
The Adelaide Repertory Theatre can be relied on at all times and when it promises “an evening of high drama and musical interludes” it means high jinks are on the way - and so it proved to be.
Burlesque by Force is persistently provocative, munificent and shrewd.
Despite its grammatical inaccuracy, the title of this play by Steve Franco is beguiling and the Blackwood Players took it on with gusto.
It’s a brave director who mounts a work addressing full frontally taboo issues like teen sex, masturbation, physical and sexual abuse, homosexuality, abortion, injustice, oppression of minorities and suicide.
This is shock-and-awe theatre. Switzerland is an exhilarating production, led by a strong performance by Gore that flourishes through its clean narrative and taut direction.
The Fieri Consort is a skilled ensemble of sensitive, well-matched singers who have been together for five years.
In these days when it is only too easy to re–present the famous and the familiar, it takes a director with courage and imagination to dig up something new and extraordinary.