Melbourne Reviews

Details: Carol Middleton; 01 June 2007

Shining City is a cross between a drawing room drama and a play by Pinter, complete with pregnant pauses. Replace the drawing room with a therapist’s consulting room, add a ghost and a touch of postmodernism, and you get the picture.

Details: Matthew Clayfield; 01 June 2007

In more sense than one, Hélène Cixous’ The Perjured City Or, The Awakening of the Furies has history pulsing through its veins.

Details: Phoebe Hartley; 29 May 2007

Shrimp is more than merely a play. It is an experience: both an aural and visual journey, a travelogue, an autobiography of a life so far, an insight into the mind of a trans-racial adoptee and a tale told vividly with every part of his body

Details: Matthew Clayfield; 27 May 2007

Alice, a former actor-turned-care worker, and Tom, who's still acting despite himself, are in a convenient but complacent relationship, not so much in love as in limbo.

Details: Lola MacMillan; 24 May 2007

This is a tragic/comic inspection of viciousness, the process of writing and the getting of inspiration, all set in the somehow twin worlds of a totalitarian dictatorship and of fairytales.

Details: Darryl Emmerson; 21 May 2007

Actor Chris Wallace, born in Ohio, but now a resident and citizen of Australia, says Twain is ‘his kind of American’, and it is easy to see why.

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 20 May 2007

Bennett is a capable storyteller and performer, weaving music with yarns and bringing to life her personal history in an engaging and lively show.

Details: Matthew Clayfield; 20 May 2007

Checklist for an Armed Robber remains an ambitious and compelling piece. Its shortcomings, while not negligible, are considerably fewer than its strengths.

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