
Roald Dahl’s popular book is brought to life, for all to witness, in a brilliantly crafted and entertaining way, with Tim Minchin’s music and lyrics bringing it home to all of us.

I say, go and hear it. You will have a hundred chances to hear Messiah, but far too few to hear this masterpiece.

The first thing you notice is the smell. Before you enter the space and see the stumped, suspended pine trees, you can smell them. It smells like Christmas.

Relatively Speaking may not be the outrageous blockbuster of other farcical period comedies, yet it is a highly entertaining and conventionally “well-made” play, by the playwright’s own admission.

Tuesday night at the Eureka Hall. I’m watching the storm pass us by (again) and hoping it will swing back around and bring us some rain. But not tonight.

She skips onto the stage, offers long rambling introductions to her songs as if chatting over coffee, mucks about doing ballet dance leaps, dedicates songs to her mum and forgets which key to play in. Missy Higgins is probably the antithesis of a diva superstar.

Winner of the Tony Awards triple-crown for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, Avenue Q, the Sesame Street-esque production, is back in Perth and delighting crowds at Crown Casino.