Sydney Reviews

Details: Laurel Green; 10 February 2010

The Lady Grey refuses to leave the spectator in the dark and instead captures our attention with hypothetical questions and direct-address.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 04 February 2010

This would have to be one of the more peculiar plays I’ve seen in recent times – an odd, awkward mishmash of styles and ideas that never seem to really coalesce and yet it undeniably has a certain flair and style, an engaging energy.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 28 January 2010

They're such ripper riffers, there isn't much need for anything else. Yet there's more besides, including an engaging sense of self-deprecating humour, not necessarily always found in egomaniacal rockstars.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 10 January 2010

And you thought you had to go to Mardi Gras (Rio, not Sydney) to get the full monty, 'wake up and smell the coffee' carnivale! Uh-uh. A tight-as-a-drum 75 minutes in the concert hall of our bathroom-tiled opera house will do it.

Details: Eliza Eggler; 06 January 2010

The playing is brilliant, the musical style fresh, and the enthusiasm and love of music abundantly clear.

Details: Augusta Supple; 04 January 2010

The Book of Everything | Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image & Company B

When we meet Thomas Klopper aged 9 (nearly 10), it is Summer in Amsterdam, Holland, Europe, Northern Hemisphere, Earth, Solar System, Galaxy, Universe, Space. And the year is 1951.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 31 December 2009

Circus Oz need hardly lift a finger to impress: its motto is enough to express its heart's in the right place. 'Community, diversity, humanity, hilarity' is a world-changing vision; just the ticket at this time of year.

Details: Augusta Supple; 26 December 2009

The show is commentary on commentary - and within the first twenty minutes we are suitably in shock and horrified at the mechanism of reality made entertainment

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