Canberra Reviews
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- Helen Machalias
One of the defining features of Wilde’s plays is their endlessly quotable dialogue, and the cast clearly relish their lines.
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- Adrienne Gross
Of the four acts and emcee there were enough laughs to feed the hungry crowd, but some courses were tastier than others.
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- Trevar Alan Chilver
This may be one of the first Australian musicals that I’ve really, genuinely enjoyed. Americans can get away with the absurd cheesiness that tends to go along with the genre, but it usually seems completely anachronistic in Australian theatre.
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- Helen Machalias
we unfold is a tour de force combining a stunning score by Ezio Bosso and powerful video art by Daniel Askill with talented dancers under the visionary direction of Bonachela.
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- Trevar Alan Chilver
Unfortunately, I don’t feel that this production has done justice to Gibson’s script.
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- Helen Machalias
Strong singing and enjoyable broad physical comedy rescued the opera from its weaker elements, in what is undoubtedly a very accessible interpretation of Puccini’s work.
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- Trevar Alan Chilver
Cullen’s play masterfully demonstrates just how little has changed since Henry Lawson began to explore Australian nationalism in the late nineteenth century, but far more than that; it tells the moving story of one of Australia’s favourite sons.
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- Adrienne Gross
Growing old gracefully - that’s got to be a cliché up there with ‘can’t teach old dogs new tricks.’ Fact is, both of those statements are wrong, as proved by the insightful play Codgers, which is like watching a wise man’s fireside tale come to life.
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