What I found most exhilarating about this production was the ability for it to emotionally affect. This play has the power to cleverly unearth the psyche of a murderer
The Wik people hold a strong and important place in Queensland’s history. They have become an Australian household name; distorted, glorified, made both legendary, and notorious over time
The charm of this piece is the bright and enthusiastic performers: the playfulness and the engagement of children. The joy of exploration and expanding a joke (especially a fart joke) into the stratosphere.
The Call brilliantly explores what life is like in small country towns, the sense of desolation and hopelessness that mingles with the common-sense humanity that is needed to make it all bearable.
The Madwoman of Chaillotmay not have the same impact at the beginning of the twenty-first century as it did at its first airing in Paris in 1945, but the absurdity, hilarity and joie de vivre in this production are just as engaging and the issues surprising fresh.