
Buried Child should be put six feet underground and left there. This latest offering by the State Theatre Company of SA is an emotionally violent, poorly acted two hours of pain.

Opening with a convivial vibe at The Street Theatre tonight, 22 Short Plays by David Finnigan is a series of shorts carefully drawn together from longer works and staged by Melbourne's MKA.

Bite Size is as lovely as the tiny cupcakes they give you in the foyer before the show. It’s not the best collection of short plays that’s ever been put on, but it doesn’t aspire to be.

Memmie Le Blanc, also known as the feral child of Champagne, named after a region in France, is the story of a girl who was found and purchased by Madame Catherine Michel – who loved her as her own daughter and tried to bring her to acceptable societal conventions.



The major issue that drowns The Artisan Collective’s production is the absence of any conceptual focus towards ‘truthfulness’, sabotaging any possibility of the suspension of disbelief.