Based on local author Rebecca Sparrow’s prequel to The Girl Most Likely, The Year Nick McGowan Came To Stay is an affectionate musical ode to growing up in Brisbane in the 80’s.
Knowledge is a dangerous thing. If you have too little then you don’t fully understand what’s happening around you, there’s no proper context, but if you have too much then you’re likely to draw false conclusions or to take things for granted.
Meet Blasko Tupper, she’s not your ordinary teenager. Her parents are extremely eccentric, mad-scientists-a- part-of-a-secret-society kind of eccentric, but this time they’ve gone too far.
At 73 years old, Humphries is in remarkably good form. While Sir Les and Sandy Stone are still fresh, Dame Edna lacks some of the satirical bite and depth of character that made her a megastar.
In Berlin, on May 4, 1945, these boys are awakening to the fact that the game they were engaged in just a few weeks ago, which lends the play its title, is being played-out for real, in the streets above their manhole.
