Sydney Reviews

Details: Helen Machalias; 11 February 2011

Speaking in Tongues depicts a world of rapidly unravelling relationships, centred on two married couples who set out to betray their partners.

Details: Helen Machalias; 07 February 2011

Tell it Like it Isn’t is teenage angst minus the clichés and was exciting to see, both as a theatre piece that showcases the potential of the HSC individual project and the collective talent at ATYP.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 07 January 2011

15 years ago Tap Dogs made a cacophonous entrance at Sydney's ubiquitous annual festival, so their return to the Capitol for a five-week anniversary season is an auspicious one, which brings with it much anticipation.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 10 December 2010

The Diary of a Madman | Company B Belvoir

In this tragicomic role of Poprishchin, Rush is a revelation, alternately hilarious as a grotesque buffoon and soul-rending as a victim of his own escalating insanity.

Details: Nicholas Routley; 03 December 2010

Haydn’s opera on perhaps the most popular subject for Western opera composers, the myth of Orfeo and Euridice, had its Australian premiere last night at the hands of the wonderful Pinchgut Opera

Details: Helen Barry; 02 December 2010

Both were born in England in the ’40s, developing lithe, tall and somewhat awkward frames. Both sport noses that hang decidedly downwards, and both were given the Christian name John. But is that where the similarities end?

Details: jane barton; 29 November 2010

A Distressing Scenario | post and version 1.0

When post and version 1.0 combined for this happy theatrical twin pack, there was the sight of political and performative bedfellows getting into bed.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 19 November 2010

Where the writer has succeeded here is in creating in-your-face characters: real enough to be arresting, bizarre enough to be intriguing. Where she's failed is in taking it anywhere at all.

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