Melbourne Reviews

Details: Vito Mattarelli; 22 March 2008

The Winterling | Red Stitch Actors Theatre

The Winterling is not so much about action but rather about the verbal sparring between people who may be your friend one moment, your enemy the next.

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 21 March 2008

Now into its third Australian season, audiences still cannot get enough of this extravagantly designed, contemporary ballet and it is not hard to see why

Details: Nic Velissaris; 20 March 2008

Queue the bluesy songs, and songs about ‘blue’ themes, all of which have a lot of humour and occasionally genuine pathos

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 19 March 2008

Project Two: Balanced Perspectives | Melbourne Ballet Company

With only two works and an hour running time, Project Two was a double bill that tipped its hat to contemporary form while still maintaining a high standard of classical technique

Details: Lola MacMillan; 15 March 2008

The Malthouse Theatre presents Moving Target, a drawn-out, self indulgent exercise in over intellectualizing theatre games.

Details: Vito Mattarelli; 12 March 2008

As the titles suggest, this is not uplifting, safe theatre for or by young people, but rather a social exercise that delves into morality issues and the problems that are encountered on the journey from child to adult.

Details: Darryl Emmerson; 10 March 2008

When a play’s central idea is transformation, the metamorphoses had better be smooth and convincing, and here they are simply implausible.

Details: Nic Velissaris; 10 March 2008

Sydney’s the Wharf Revue has been put on yearly since 1999, and satirizes the people and events of the past year

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