
Playing far too short a season at The Q, Shake & Stir’s Animal Farm is a remarkable piece of theatre.

In LaunchPad dance makers Liesel Zink and Lucas Jervies created successful duos. But, it’s a big leap to make a work for seven dancers and then for Weir to stage the result as a part of EDC’s mainstream annual program.

Truly great music makes you want to sing. It fills the heart with joy as once thought forgotten lyrics flood back into memory.

The Secret River is certainly not an easy play to watch, but it’s certainly one that will make you contemplate this troubled chapter in our national history long after the curtain falls.

For jazz aficionados the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald will always be a strong favourite. And the opportunity to listen to some of her favourite tunes in the lush garden studio of the ACT company in Brighton promises to be a wonderful night.

This production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is frustratingly close to excellence. It is absolutely worth seeing and contains some moments of absolute brilliance, but as a whole, it just falls short.

Brutal. Much like its subject matter, Patrick Marber’s play Closer, is a turbulent spectacle of the utter mediocrity and predictability of humanity.