From behind the somewhat pedestrian and uninspiring title, The Drowsy Chaperone – a Musical within a Comedy – bursts a fabulous show full of fun, laughs, and straight out entertainment. And this SA premiere production is brilliant.
Interwoven themes of discovery, rebellion, misplaced affection, frustration, sexuality, gender distinction, emotional constriction, unrequited and unfulfilled love and attraction are explored in this play with humour and frankness.
The Brady Bunchis the latest work from Richard Frankland and explores, as the title aptly suggests, the notions of family and the facts and fallacies that accompany the family stereotype.
Tehran features a series of snapshot-like proses, songs and shadow puppetry which have taken inspiration from Forugh Farrokhzad's poem 'Conquest of the Garden,' a poem describing a crow's flight over a city, observing the lives of the people below from a vagabond cloud.
Music is a constant companion to Shakespeare's work, appearing at significant moments throughout his plays - be it associated with magic or the supernatural, or with transformation and new spiritual realisation.
If your backside can endure an uncushioned bench for a couple of hours, a play must be pretty damn good. Andrew Bovell's When The Rain Stops Falling is better than good.