Sydney Reviews

Details: Brett Casben; 17 March 2007

Cullen is something of a rarity in Australian theatre, a consummate performer who has stood by his craft without compromise.

Details: Rebecca Whitton; 16 March 2007

Daniel Keene’s The Nightwatchman is a contemplative, elegiac piece that explores the emotional reverberations between a father and his children as he prepares to move out of the family home.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 15 March 2007

Bell Shakespeare’s latest Macbeth is quality theatre, but it is something of a disappointment given the luminaries involved.

Details: Sarah Doyle; 12 March 2007

Berlin-born Sydney-based Martin del Amo explores the notion of the unknown with both text and movement in his new work ‘Never Been This Far Away From Home.’

Details: James Waites; 09 March 2007

This new production of Patrick White’s ‘charade of suburbia’ The Season At Sarsaparilla, is all one could have hoped it could be: a triumph for director Benedict Andrews and for the STC’s Actors’ Company.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 05 March 2007

“How do you want your eggs in the morning; scrambled or fertilized?”
For those of us who have never experienced the weird and, well… weird world of Speed Dating, this play confirms our worst fears: Olivia Ansell’s hilarious short play seems more like a cautionary tale than an endorsement.

Details: Brett Casben; 03 March 2007

Without doubt it is a beautifully crafted work wonderfully staged and directed in this production.

Details: Selma Nadarajah; 03 March 2007

The Jewish mother has somewhat become a stereotype in entertainment. The portrayal of the overbearing matriarch, who steadfastly drills in to her offspring the crucial importance of retaining the Jewish tradition, has been widely represented in literature, film and theatre.