
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an evergreen favourite for those who enjoy crackling wordplay and stinging absurdist irony, shot through with accessible philosophical musings and a heavy dose of archly self-aware humour about the nature of theatre and actors.

Steven Gates, Scott Edgar and Simon Hall, have been playing music, singing together and making audiences laugh for 20 years.

Straight White Men arrives on our shores with the promise that audiences will be disturbed and ‘blindsided’; that they’ll come away feeling like they’ve had a ‘knife in the gut’. The reality of this MTC production doesn’t quite match the hype.

Based on the 1991 film of the same name, Dogfight is a brutal look into pre Vietnam War 1960s America, where heroes were young men with 13 weeks of military training and women, their playthings, objects of desire or in this case, humiliation.

So the premise behind Paper is that a group of ambitious journos hatch a plan to boost their failing readership figures by contriving a sex scandal to bring down their opposition.

After the Flood is a beautiful unpretentious work of storytelling, playing with tradition in ways both humorous and respectful. Mikelangelo and The Black Sea Gentlemen should be named national treasures, pronto.

University of Adelaide Theatre Guild’s production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona is utterly mesmeric.