Sydney Reviews

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.

Details: Selma Nadarajah; 27 April 2007

Taking a stab at Australian apathy and self-deprecation is Brendan Cowell’s bold new black comedy, Self-Esteem.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 27 April 2007

Stephen MacDonald’s play is comprised of predominantly, and richly, imagined details of a legendary meeting of minds and souls: those of English poets, Siegfried Sassoon & Wilfred Owen.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 26 April 2007

A play about life, love and politics, Hannie Rayson’s Life After George is a tale of the intertwined stories of some intriguing but ultimately flawed characters.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 26 April 2007

It’s the tail end of the roaring 20s; machines are coming of age, romance is dying (or is it?), but cigars are still hand-rolled with love and dedication in a small family factory in Tampa, Florida.

Details: Claude Lequereux; 26 April 2007

Not Nicole Kidman on anatomic steroids, but the love child of Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine, diva extraordinare Varla Jean Merman brassily boasts a treasure chest of cabaret mayhem.

Details: Claude Lequereux; 24 April 2007

A dramatic journey to the centre of Goon comic genius - Spike Milligan's mind of lost marbles at the time of his mental breakdown.

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