Melbourne Reviews

Details: Carol Middleton; 02 July 2009

The Birthday Party | Melbourne Theatre Company

Fifty-one years after English playwright Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party was greeted with hostility and incomprehension from London audiences, the play still has the power to mystify audiences.

Details: Penelope Broadbent; 27 June 2009

Paris Match is The Australian Ballet’s latest programme to be brought to Melbourne and it showcases two works that in style and vision are incredibly different.

Details: Olympia Bowman-Derrick; 26 June 2009

Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan is a character-driven dramatic comedy which lets you laugh as its characters struggle with the moral dilemmas of right and wrong.

Details: Bron Batten; 25 June 2009

Construct is an exploration of building, decay and collapse, aspiration and expectation.

Details: Rachel Orzech; 22 June 2009

Wunderschön | Meow Meow and Australian National Academy of Music

Unclassifiable, Wunderschön straddles cabaret, theatre, and classical music in its re-imagining of 21 Lieder by nineteenth-century composers Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert.

Details: Rachel Orzech; 20 June 2009

Barely Contained makes you laugh, think, gasp, grab on to the edge of your seat, let out a sigh of relief, and then laugh again.

Details: Penelope Broadbent; 19 June 2009

The primary reason that it is so difficult to follow Poet #7’s characters and plot, is that the audience’s ears are forced to compete with their eyes.

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 18 June 2009

Melbourne identity Rachel Berger is known more for her standup comedy than her theatrical work, but she’s changing that reputation with her solo show Hold the Pickle.

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