Sydney Reviews

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.

Details: Tessa Needham; 20 April 2007

A woman and two men enter the space. She strips down to her underwear, and the men begin to move around her, adding and subtracting things from her mannequin-like body.

Details: Brenton Amies; 20 April 2007

A Mistress, Black Magic, Adultery and a King with an anal fistula. This music theatre production appears to have it all, but the sad truth though is that despite some genuinely decent performances from the ensemble the piece as a whole was lacking.

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