Sydney Reviews

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 16 August 2010

Dream? Nightmare? Both, as any trip through the dimly-lit tunnels of the unconscious must be. Alice in Wonderland runs smack-bang into Freud and Jung.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 13 August 2010

Dylan Thomas' opening gambit for Under Milkwood is the very stuff that makes other writers unbearably, acutely aware of their own inadequacy.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 10 August 2010

As Rowan Atkinson, playing an imperious teacher in a comedy sketch, once described it: “The Comedy of Errors has the joke of two people looking like each other. Twice.”

Details: Nicholas Routley; 09 August 2010

The concert began with the prelude to Act III from Wagner’s Lohengrin, whose title role is the original knight in shining armour.

Details: Trevar Alan Chilver; 06 August 2010

Although The Berry Man might be centred on the Vietnam War, its theme really runs much deeper than that.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 29 July 2010

Both plays had lines any ambitious writer would wish they'd written. In fact, it's pretty much true of both plays in their entirety.

Details: Brenton Amies; 28 July 2010

The play deals with the sliding doors or the 'what ifs' of the central character (Hannah) as she wends her merry way from adolescence to early adulthood.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 26 July 2010

Peter Nichols' Poppy, ostensibly a musical, is daring and dangerous ground for a next-to-no-budget production company, like the industrious Factory Space.

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