
Dead Puppets Society’s The Harbinger is a little addictive and more than a little disturbing – and that irrepressible uneasiness lingers in your consciousness for a good while after the experience.

Brisbane audiences won’t feel they’ve been left out in the cold this winter after witnessing the passion, fire and intensity that exudes from Doctor Zhivago.

Aside from offering two remarkable experiences for the price of one, such performances also manage to demonstrate the company’s considerable flexibility and variety.

Dennis Kelly’s Orphans is arguably one of the most gruelling and visceral theatrical experiences you’re likely to experience all year.

An affecting and tragic story, Colder demands a lot of its audience. The very form of the play seems exhausting; littered with time jumps, split scenes and time jumps within the split scenes – whew!

Heavy and emotional or not, there is only so long an audience can wait between lines – and the more moments of silence there were, the less meaning was loaded in them.