Melbourne Reviews

Details: Jan Chandler; 05 August 2007

Monk O'Neill may encapsulate everything that the modern day feminist despises in the Aussie male, but whilst you are cringing at his lewd carry on, you also find yourself laughing with him

Details: Benjamin Eltham; 03 August 2007

Dorothy Hewett's great play of love, life and longing, The Chapel Perilous, springs stirringly to life in this courageous yet light-hearted La Mama production.

Details: Paul Andrew; 01 August 2007

4:48 Psychosis | Red Stitch Actors Theatre

4:48 is ostensibly a stream of consciousness poem without identifiable characters, stage directions or author notes

Details: Simon Piening; 31 July 2007

Inspired by the story of Maria Korp, Make Me Cry uses the “brutal facts” of the case as the starting point for exploration, and concentrates on the events leading up to her death.

Details: Paul Andrew; 30 July 2007

How to say love me? There is an infinite array of possibilities. Where would love be without the foreboding presence of the big and little screens?

Details: Nic Velissaris; 28 July 2007

The show is wonderful light comedy, filled with musical interludes and the obligatory Bollywood dancing

Details: Anna Lozynski; 28 July 2007

Each black tie dressed individual who attended the opening night of The Phantom of the Opera would attest that it is a sweetly intoxicating musical masterpiece

Details: Matthew Clayfield; 25 July 2007

Children's rhymes, when sung at just the right tempo, with just the right lilting, listless tone, have a tendency to become slightly unnerving

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