A moral fable about wealth, power, status and moral comprise, Emerald City is about scruples scuppered and moral compasses reset.
In an all American small-town community hall, wood veneer panelled and mirrored back wall, five people associate to take part in an amateur acting class run by Marty, a passionate Pollyanna teacher who leads the group in a series of drama games.
The star’s six-decade-long career, and varied achievements along the way, provide an abundance of material for consideration.
Seeing a script performed for the first time is one thing, but seeing an actor react to that script in real time for the first time is an entirely different experience all together.
Inventive yet familiar, complex yet approachable, uplifting yet unsentimental, and altogether peppered with charm, challenge, poignancy and plenty of unbridled humour
Roald Dahl’s The Twits bursts onto the stage these school holidays with all the farts, boogers and chaos you’d expect. Shake & Stir serve up a gloriously gross show at the Sydney Opera House.