


Disarmingly relaxed yet consummately professional, Teddy Tahu Rhodes sat on a bar-stool and rotated it from time to time to look at the players behind him – and at the end of the performance he was perfectly happy to cart it offstage himself.

Cool New York Cabaret fails to sizzle as duo Sidonie Henbest and Matthew Carey take to the Spiegeltent stage in the Adelaide Fringe.

The sum of the parts is uplifting, astonishing in its breadth and re-affirms the place of theatre in a fast paced consumer dominated world.


Nominated in 2010 for three Tony Awards, and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Sarah Ruhl’s provocatively titled In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play is sure to be a runaway success for the Sydney Theatre Company.