Sydney Reviews

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 16 May 2007

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.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 07 May 2007

The creation of expat Swedish actress Danijela Hodges, Thore House is set in an erotic nightclub and tells the interwoven stories of several of its denizens.

Details: Rebecca Whitton; 07 May 2007

Wilding is careful to keep the audience guessing and their sympathies swinging by making the situation unsettlingly ambiguous.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 07 May 2007

While there’s more than a smattering of sparkling one-liners, too many are laboured and teetering on cliché. The references to the musical whose name the play parodies are scant and practically pointless.

Details: Rebecca Whitton; 06 May 2007

Howard Brenton’s play Paul is the extraordinary story of St Paul, whose faith and fanatical commitment, in the playwright’s view, was as important in establishing the Christian religion as Christ himself.

Details: Selma Nadarajah; 06 May 2007

George Balanchine’s 1928 work, Apollo, seemed an appropriate way to open The Australian Ballet’s new production, New Romantics.

Details: Brett Casben; 05 May 2007

City for Sale is a slick modern comedy based not so much on an Orwellian ‘Brave New World’ as a Swifter version of a past one, back to the future of feudalism.

Details: Aleksei Wechter; 05 May 2007

Tim Minchin steps on stage looking, as usual, like the love child of a young Iggy Pop, Ludwig van Beethoven and a rabbit stuck in my headlights.

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