Performing Arts Reviews:
2008–2022

  Sydney Theatre Company presents PYGMALION by George Bernard Shaw at the Sydney Theatre. What is best about this production of PYGMALION by George Bernard Shaw is the opportunity to hear and see this text by one of the great writer’s for the theatre. I believe it is the first time that I have seen or heard it on the stage. Read it, of course, many times and know the beautifully bowdlerised version of it called MY FAIR LADY both on stage and film. In this production by Peter Evans for the Sydney Theatre Company, a production conceived with an…

Sydney Festival 2012 and Malthouse Theatre present Meow Meow’s LITTLE MATCH GIRL at The Famous Spiegeltent, Hyde Park, Sydney. Meow Meow is one of the exciting and not to be missed creative artists working in Australia. And with LITTLE MATCH GIRL the skills are impressive and production-wise, the appetite and ambition of vision of this work is both breathtaking and challenging. LITTLE MATCH GIRL created by Meow Meow and Iain Grandage, directed by Marion Potts and produced by Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, has taken the Hans Christian Andersen story as a starting point. Today, we are mightily mistaken when we accept…

Belvoir and Sydney Festival 2012, in association with Carriageworks, present THYESTES by Thomas Henning, Chris Ryan, Simon Stone & Mark Winter after Seneca in Bay 20 at Carriageworks. Originally created by The Hayloft Project. This production of THYESTES playing at Carriageworks is the most perfect piece of dramatic work that I have seen for some time. To be a regular and interested theatre goer and not have seen it will be a great loss to your Sydney theatre experience. Make no excuses. And even if you are an occasional theatre goer or one who through other strictures (lack of lots…

  A HISTORY OF EVERYTHING. Presented by Sydney Theatre Company and Ontroerend Goed in association with the Sydney Festival at Wharf 2, Sydney Theatre Company. Presented in association with Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Drum Theatre Plymouth and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd. Ontroerend Goed first appeared in a Sydney Festival (2009) with an absolutely impressive work of sheer joy: THE SMILE OFF YOUR FACE. It followed later in that year with a touring company of teenage youth in a very cleverly devised product called ONCE AND FOR ALL WE’RE GONNA TELL YOU WHO WE ARE SO SHUT UP AND LISTEN. For THE HISTORY…

SLIDE presents Daniel Scott in THE WIZARD OF OZ. Daniel Scott one of the stars of the musical PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT and more recently THE JERSEY BOYS  is a performer in his own solo right. THE WIZARD OF OZ, a cabaret selection of song,sets out to reveal the wide and wild diversity of his talent, range and skills. Dressed in a glamourous suit with a beautiful white shirt, sparkling with the most dazzling set of shirt studs, breast and sleeves, Mr Scott greeted us in his very ‘Ozzie’ demeanour and told us, tonight, not to expect a single…

  Sydney Festival in association with Sydney Theatre presents ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE by Cheek by Jowl, from the play by John Ford at the Sydney Theatre. ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE by John Ford is calculated to have been written somewhere between 1629-1633. It was published, definitely, we know, in 1633. It was written in the Kingship of Charles I, a period of English history, sat between the glories of Elizabeth I and the Revolution led by Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. The arrival on the English throne by the Scottish, Stuart heir, James I, (1603-25) marks a…