Sydney Reviews
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- Richard Cotter
Directed with a fluid panache by Susanna Dowling, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie is an enchanting entertainment that enhances the literary legacy left by May Gibbs.
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- Penny Spirou
Translating a non-musical film to a stage musical is always risky business. Sometimes it works and sometimes it really doesn’t. Luckily Bring It On the film already had a lot of musical characteristics to work with, so its stage counterpart needn’t have strayed too far from the original incarnation.
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- Emily Shaddick
Making people laugh is harder than making people cry but not for Aunty Donna who make the whole audience laugh while making it look easy.
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- Rebecca Whitton
It is a fairly flimsy and predictable work, but director, Christopher Renshaw’s strong cast work very hard to present an entertaining show.
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- Marika Bryant
Biggins deals with racism, patriarchal indulgence, disability, education, bigotry, (old-age and new-age) technology, food choices, indigenous culture, bullying, economic growth, old-school mentality and so much more of the current human psyche – all with a laconic smirk and a twist of the knife.
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- Rebecca Whitton
Two of Australia’s much loved playwrights, Brendan Cowell and Lally Katz have combined to blow a breath of fresh air into Belvoir St’s Downstairs Theatre with their two short romantic comedies, TheDog/The Cat.
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- Richard Cotter
Kate Gaul seems to be the go to gal when it comes to staging Irish playwright Enda Walsh’s plays in Sydney.
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