NOTHING by Janne Teller
Just a Boy, Standing in Front of a Girl | POSTPONED |
Still by Jen Silverman
The Trauma Project by Elizabeth Walley
Playreading: June by Patrick McCarthy
The Anniversary
Burn This by Lanford Wilson
Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance
The Curtain by Daniel Keene
Shake ‘n’ Blake
The New Impromptu Quartet
A Night of Songs and Scenes for Bushfire Relief
The Age review of Punk Rock
★★★★ Cameron Woodhead Thursday 12 December 2020 Simon Stephens’ study of adolescence takes us into a Manchester grammar school, where seven students wait for their final exams. We get a fly-on-the-wall portrayal of teenagers in their natural habitat – a…
Punk Rock by Simon Stephens
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Rapture Chapter II: Art vs Extinction
The Age review of The Ghetto Cabaret
Cameron Woodhead August 7, 2019 — 2.11pm ★★★★ A cabaret set amid the horror and deprivation of Jewish ghettoes in World War II? You’d have to be crazy. Totally meshugah. Yet Galit Klas has created one of the most…
The Ghetto Cabaret
ABR review of A Room of One’s Own
Wednesday, 24 July 2019 Lisa Gorton ★★★★ In this intelligent and unusual play, director Peta Hanrahan arranges Virginia Woolf’s great essay A Room of One’s Own into an hour-long play for four voices. Curiously, perhaps, it works so well as…
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
The Age review of Travesties by Tom Stoppard
Monday 17 June Cameron Woodhead ★★★ Highbrow types won’t need reminding that Sunday was Bloomsday. Named after the central character in James Joyce’s Ulysses, it’s the date on which that towering monument of modernist fiction was set, and it has…
The Saturday Paper review of LOVE/SHIT
Saturday 8 June Alison Croggon Love and Shit, an exhilarating double bill by Patricia Cornelius at fortyfivedownstairs, expose the uncomfortable realities of Australia’s underclass. In doing so, these plays remind us how vital theatre can be. Sometimes, I really do…
BROKEN by Mary Anne Butler
Coral Browne: This F***ing Lady!
Taxithi 2: Metanastes – The Immigrants
Anno Zombie by Bridgette Burton
The Australian review of The Merry Wives of Windsor
Chris Boyd The Australian April 20, 2016 Here’s a production to rescue The Merry Wives of Windsor from the remainder pile of Shakespearean history. If you know the plot at all, chances are you picked it up from Verdi’s last…
You're Tearing Me Apartment: The Roomsical
THIS SHOW IS NOT FOR THE PRUDISH SO READ ON AT YOUR OWN RISK. The Room (Movie) has become a cult staple and is regarded as the Citizen Kane of sh*?@t movies. YOU’RE TEARING ME APARTMENT: THE ROOMSICAL, more a…
The Melbourne Review on Vieux Carré
See article in its original context here.
Tennessee Williams is best known for a string of classic plays, such as Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie that form part of a golden thread of twentieth century American drama.
Yet it is a lesser known work of Williams’, Vieux Carré, begun in the 1930s and not completed for more than 40 years, that will feature on the Melbourne stage from next week.
Opening on January 17, ITCH productions presents the Australian premiere of Vieux Carré – an exploration of interlinking themes, as always with Williams, of sex, art, creativity, anguish and social constraints that limit that very exploration.
Forming part of Midsumma 2013, the performance opens the year for fortyfivedownstairs with a humorous and very personal work, a ‘memory play’ that follows the period of artistic, social and sexual discovery of the young American.