An Octoroon is a production of contrasts. Bright white stage and pitch-dark blackouts. Raucous comedy and stark reality. Black face and white face. Loud rap music and uncomfortable silence. The rights afforded to characters of white skin, and the treatment of all others.
You’re sitting in a room at the North Melbourne Town Hall, a bare room room with two musicians harmonising sweet, whimsical tunes. Enter Wil Greenaway.
The internet as we know it has morphed into The Nether, a virtual playground similar to Second Life that demands almost as much attention as our own “real world”. Unfortunately, it has also inherited the dubious moralities of The Dark Web.
Given the current state of both American and Australian politics, both fixated on silencing the voices of diversity, it is a timely production of Assassins at the Hayes Theatre in Darlinghurst.
A haemorrhaging hooker and a hammer horror vampire are included in the vituperative five hander, The Night Alive by Conor McPherson.
Too Ready Mirror is a sound attempt to look at why women do the things we do, how we sort out who we are while playing to our small strengths, especially in relation to men and the whole damn world.
Dead Puppet Society has teamed up with Laser Beak Man artist Tim Sharp to create a glorious piece of visual theatre that delights all audience members, regardless of age.