Sydney Reviews

Details: Rebecca Whitton; 13 March 2008

This extravagant, skillful, boisterous, raunchy production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is exhilarating. It is an entirely unique and imaginative production. And it is hilarious. Don’t miss it.

Details: Eliza Eggler; 10 March 2008

Arabella is very much a story of fantasy versus reality and Opera Australia’s production of this lesser known Strauss masterpiece has done a good job at presenting these themes

Details: James Waites; 09 March 2008

The 7 Stages of Grieving | Sydney Theatre Company

Purcell’s direction is fresh and, as sad as some of the story is, the touch is always light.

Details: Helen Barry; 08 March 2008

Through the course of this tense one act play the three will find their friendships challenged and their allegiances turning on a knife’s edge

Details: James Waites; 07 March 2008

embrace: GUILT FRAME sets out to explore these states, literally within an approximately 2x1 metre ‘gilt frame’. And wow, is it a roller-coaster journey

Details: Tessa Needham; 07 March 2008

The Beauty Queen Of Leenane | Wildfire Theatre Company

Director Maeliosa Stafford has done an excellent job with this production. The focus is on the characters, and the actors all turn in dynamic performances.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 03 March 2008

In a very real sense, she is a soul singer: there is a kind of visceral spirituality here; a ‘heart’ voice, not a ‘head’ voice, if you will

Details: Rebecca Whitton; 02 March 2008

This is How it Goes is blackly comic, playfully challenging the audience by removing the security of their ethical framework.

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