Sydney Reviews

Details: Aleksei Wechter; 02 November 2007

Kiki & Herb: The Year of Magical Drinking Tour

Long, strong legs, sagging breasts, an eruption of what should be greying hair, diamante tears and a set of eyes that have seen the world. Kiki is one formidable, volatile and gracious hostess

Details: Rebecca Whitton; 27 October 2007

Katherine Thomson’s immensely affecting new play, King Tide, deals with both the personal grief of a family and broader, contemporary moral issues.

Details: Tessa Needham; 26 October 2007

Blue Print is a new work by director/performer Deborah Pollard – an “artistic response” to the 2003 Canberra bush fires that burned her family home to the ground.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 24 October 2007

I wanted to like this show, I really did...

Details: Jack Teiwes; 18 October 2007

Once again, New Theatre tackles the classics of political theatre with great conviction. Traitors is a powerful, unsettling play and, perhaps, a timely one.

Details: Rebecca Whitton; 18 October 2007

Margolyes is a performer of considerable wit, charm and skill and her physical and vocal expressiveness is faultless.

Details: Tessa Needham; 17 October 2007

All of the short works have been carefully programmed, and the resulting show is seamless and diverse.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 17 October 2007

A Bright Room Called Day is both a satisfying character drama and an engrossing fly-on-the-wall historical epic.

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