Melbourne Reviews

Details: Nic Velissaris; 07 June 2007

Spring Awakening is a dark and powerful work that features violence, rape, abortion, masturbation, homoerotic love and finally death, but not in a cheap or tawdry fashion.

Details: Matthew Clayfield; 04 June 2007

Wild East is a play that doesn't quite know what it wants to be: a nuanced comedy about corporate culture, a chamber drama about personal betrayal, or a riotous, slapdash cartoon.

Details: Jan Chandler; 04 June 2007

Othello has never been a particular favourite of mine; it grates on the feminist in me – why does Othello believe everyone but his wife? Why is Desdemona so subservient?

Details: Simon Piening; 04 June 2007

From the same producers that brought us the surprise hit Menopause The Musical, comes RESPECT - A Musical Journey of Women.

Details: Carol Middleton; 01 June 2007

Shining City is a cross between a drawing room drama and a play by Pinter, complete with pregnant pauses. Replace the drawing room with a therapist’s consulting room, add a ghost and a touch of postmodernism, and you get the picture.

Details: Matthew Clayfield; 01 June 2007

In more sense than one, Hélène Cixous’ The Perjured City Or, The Awakening of the Furies has history pulsing through its veins.

Details: Phoebe Hartley; 29 May 2007

Shrimp is more than merely a play. It is an experience: both an aural and visual journey, a travelogue, an autobiography of a life so far, an insight into the mind of a trans-racial adoptee and a tale told vividly with every part of his body

Details: Matthew Clayfield; 27 May 2007

Alice, a former actor-turned-care worker, and Tom, who's still acting despite himself, are in a convenient but complacent relationship, not so much in love as in limbo.