Sydney Reviews

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 30 June 2009

All-in-all, it's a mixed bag. Loyalists will love it.

Details: Helen Barry; 29 June 2009

It’s a lovely set up, with carefully considered characters that are well observed, and as the play progresses there is a nice sense that this pair have much more in common than it first appears.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 26 June 2009

Flamenco is, arguably, flavour of the month.

Details: Augusta Supple; 18 June 2009

Savage River is one of the most anticipated new plays of the year.

Details: Anna Solar-Bassett; 15 June 2009

Anger inducing. Debate demanding. Cud to chew.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 14 June 2009

The BBC sitcom series of many years ago, Richard Curtis & Ben Elton's Blackadder, is a natural for the stage, with its larger-than-life characters (caricatures, really; and then some) and Chaucerian ribaldry.

Details: Aleksei Wechter; 14 June 2009

While Miriam and the Monkfish could easily be overlooked as a pastiche of celebrity chef culture it’s the satire in the writing, along with Kelly’s energetic performance, that carries the show beyond this.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 13 June 2009

To Kill a Mockingbird | Epicentre Theatre Company

Director, Dino Dimitriadis, for Epicentre Theatre Company, has done a particularly fine job, in taking Christopher Sergel's adaptation of Lee's perennial novel to the stage

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