Sydney Reviews

: Selma Nadarajah; 25 February 2007

Matthew Bournes Swan Lake

Swan Lake is a bold, dynamic and clever interpretation. Bourne throws in elements of jazz, modern dance, Latin (including an energetic paso doble set to Tchaikovsky’s Spanish Dance) as well as ballroom and folk.

: Jack Teiwes; 22 February 2007

A Midsummer Nights Dream | RAW-EM Theatre Co

Nothing quite adds a sense of reality to a “night in the woods” like a diegetic thrum of real cicadas. At one point a chorus of kookaburras struck up, as if perfectly on cue to provide a fanfare for Titania’s entrance!

: Tessa Needham; 21 February 2007

Circus Girl | The Flying Fruit Fly Circus

Young girls tumble across the stage, flip over and over, handle enormous numbers of hula hoops, stand on large balls, and fly, twirl and spin through the air. And this is only the overture.

: Aleksei Wechter; 16 February 2007

10 Days on Earth | Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes

Burkett is undoubtedly a master of guiding his cast through all matter of human (and otherwise) gesture, but the real magic is his ability to convey characters across his player puppets.

: Brett Casben; 15 February 2007

Boston Marriage | Darlinghurst Theatre

Boston Marriage, performing at the Darlinghurst Theatre depicts two deliciously etched bitches with one thing on their mind. It’s not the same in each case, however.

: Jack Teiwes; 10 February 2007

Mojo | Phantom Management

Detailing the travails of an inept handful of (very) small-time mobsters who run afoul of the real thing, Mojo gives us an entertaining vision of a 1958 London obsessed with imported Rock & Roll and American fashions, yet still profoundly British almost to the point of caricature.

: Rebecca Whitton; 10 February 2007

The Gates of Egypt | Company B

Stephen Sewell’s new play, The Gates of Egypt is a clarion call to extend ourselves beyond our individual temporal concerns and act within a larger moral framework.

: Sarah Doyle; 07 February 2007

The Glass Boat | Pig Island

Bubbling with bouncy banter including every ludicrous Aussie-vernacular-cliché under our collective sunburnt brow, The Glass Boat loosely themes itself on time-travel, Christmas and a mental institution.