
Ever had that experience where you are aware that something is rather famous, has been around quite a long time, but you don’t actually know much about it, simply because you’ve never really crossed paths?

Misogyny has been a constant presence in the Australian social and political landscape of late. Savages, a new play by playwright Patricia Cornelius, positions itself square in the middle of this discourse.

night maybe is a mysterious and evocative work from Stuck Pigs Squealing, a collaborative theatre group looking hard at the spaces between imagination and concrete reality, at indentity under threat.

With tight performances and minimal set design, it packs a punch; I think Irish playwright Martin Crimp would be happy with this production.

Contemporary twists and turns, with music you know you know, however treated in their particular manner, with these particular musicians, these timeless favourites are reinvented again.

Confessions of a Control Freak is quite a big bit of fun and does what good theatre does best – makes the audience feel a little bit less alone in their struggle to control their lives.

The piece is like a smorgasbord of sound and rhythm, a twenty-four course meal full of the savoury and the dulcet, and let’s not forget, one roast swan and plenty of drink. It’s varied, rhythmic, melodic, playful and dramatic.