We were taken on a global journey starting with a Hebrew song well sung by Naomi and to such varied cultures as those from Guinea, Spain, America and West Africa.
How do you pronounce Vale? To rhyme with whale or to rhyme with Calais? It is the former, although argument rages about how it should be pronounced when it means goodbye.
It was a joyful, demanding, emotionally churning play that doesn’t go away at its end but leaves so much to think about afterwards.
The Adelaide Repertory Theatre can be relied on at all times and when it promises “an evening of high drama and musical interludes” it means high jinks are on the way - and so it proved to be.
Despite its grammatical inaccuracy, the title of this play by Steve Franco is beguiling and the Blackwood Players took it on with gusto.
It’s a brave director who mounts a work addressing full frontally taboo issues like teen sex, masturbation, physical and sexual abuse, homosexuality, abortion, injustice, oppression of minorities and suicide.
This is shock-and-awe theatre. Switzerland is an exhilarating production, led by a strong performance by Gore that flourishes through its clean narrative and taut direction.