
It’s a while since I’ve heard an audience gasp in shock at a character’s actions onstage but the depths of sibling bastardry portrayed in Felix Nobis’s Boy Out of The Country certainly hit the spot.

Robert Reid has taken the events surrounding the toppling of Kevin Rudd and made them into a play, the second of Five Pound Theatre's five week repertory season at The Owl and the Pussycat.

If there is a good musical version of Carrie extant, it is not this one – it’s easy to see why this was a Broadway flop.

This is a sparkly, dialogue-driven, alternative rom-com. It places the protagonists, a wildly different man and woman, together in the untidy lost weekend that never should have happened.

The Cake Man is a seminal piece of Indigenous theatre, and this production at Belvoir St does Robert J Merritt’s classic script proud. It is a difficult play to watch, but an important one.

Frenetic and boisterous, the show is staged with little in the way of set or props, but a lot of very exuberant and uproarious performances, the strong ensemble cast mostly making meals of their characters.

A new work by Madness and Tea, Jack and Jill has many hilarious moments, but the plot is slightly hit-and-miss and feels underdone at times.