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David Williamson’s newest play at the State Theatre Company South Australia takes us on board a ‘lifestyle cruise’ – or, to be blunter, a swingers cruise.
Unapologetically sentimental, uncynically joyful, and brimming with wholeheartedness, Love Stories delivers exactly what its title promises.
Marion Crawford is best remembered – if she is remembered at all – as an employee of the British royal family. A new Australian play brings her to the stage.
Jack Hibberd has died at age 84. As part of Australian theatre’s New Wave he was a crucial playwright in exploring how we saw ourselves as Australians.
Van Badham and Richard Wise have created a stunning two-hander about an ultimate first-date disaster, and finding connection despite differences.
Ensemble Theatre’s exceptional and engaging production of Uncle Vanya successfully captures the essence of Chekhov’s work.
Ray Lawler, who died this week at 103, wrote Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, one of the most influential plays in Australian theatre history.
Dracula has always lived somewhere between the written word, screen projections and our fantasy lives. His story is tailor-made for Kip Williams’ adaptation.
From theatre-maker Rebecca Meston, Hits has deep understanding of the almost religious experience of concerts.
Robert Menzies is outstanding as a physically feeble yet emotionally volatile Lear.
Anchuli Felicia King’s play American Signs at the Sydney Theatre Company thrusts us into the world of a campus hire at management consultancy ‘The Firm’.
If you’re in need of a queerly spiritual intervention, or more simply looking for a show that will stay with you, I urge you to experience Homo Pentecostus at Malthouse.
Symphonie of the Bicycle is a tribute to the value of laughter and comedy, and the power of theatre in these ruthless times.
Belvoir’s new play Nayika: A Dancing Girl blends music, dance and drama using a neo-classical version of Bharatanatyam dance.
Set in 1990s suburban Australia, The Exact Dimensions of Hell is a theatrical exploration that unflinchingly examines themes of teenage girls, desire and power.
The Sydney Theatre Company’s captivating revival of the 1975 play, co-produced with Dublin’s Gate Theatre, manages to balance the loathing and humour of Thomas Bernhard’s writing.
Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World at the Sydney Theatre Company is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what it is to be good; what it is to live a good life.
Eamon Flack’s production captures well – and with a lovely, light touch – the sense of fleeting memories that are, nevertheless, still available to us.
Playwright Nathan Maynard uses the story of Adam Goodes to explore race in a local footy club.
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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