Melbourne Reviews

Details: Benjamin Eltham; 14 August 2007

Raimondo and Adriano Cortese's Holiday is an unsettling and hilarious play.

Details: Anna Lozynski; 10 August 2007

Criminology | Malthouse Theatre & Arena Theatre Company

This is a jarring play that considers a tale of nightmarish proportions.

Details: Benjamin Eltham; 09 August 2007

The Glass Soldier | Melbourne Theatre Company

Over three hours long, Rayson's script meanders between historical epic and contemporary melodrama with little focus

Details: Darryl Emmerson; 06 August 2007

Perhaps the evening’s highlight is, in fact, her version of Imagine, one of the best I’ve ever heard

Details: Jan Chandler; 05 August 2007

Monk O'Neill may encapsulate everything that the modern day feminist despises in the Aussie male, but whilst you are cringing at his lewd carry on, you also find yourself laughing with him

Details: Benjamin Eltham; 03 August 2007

Dorothy Hewett's great play of love, life and longing, The Chapel Perilous, springs stirringly to life in this courageous yet light-hearted La Mama production.

Details: Paul Andrew; 01 August 2007

4:48 Psychosis | Red Stitch Actors Theatre

4:48 is ostensibly a stream of consciousness poem without identifiable characters, stage directions or author notes

Details: Simon Piening; 31 July 2007

Inspired by the story of Maria Korp, Make Me Cry uses the “brutal facts” of the case as the starting point for exploration, and concentrates on the events leading up to her death.

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