Sydney Reviews

Details: Brenton Amies; 07 October 2009

Horizons and Decline & Hall are presented as a double bill from New Zealand born playwright Roger Gimblett.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 04 October 2009

Practice makes perfect. No wonder, then, that Noeline Brown and Barry Creyton hover so very near to that mark

Details: Helen Barry; 01 October 2009

For those who like their theatre fresh, tasty and bite-sized there’s plenty to love about this year’s season of Brand Spanking New.

Details: Aleksei Wechter; 29 September 2009

Gabriela lives with her cat in the Californian desert. Her life is on hold while she waits for her husband, Benito, to return from war.

Details: Vanessa Lahey; 21 September 2009

The Only Child is essentially a play about the dysfunction that exists within relationships, both familial and sexual.

Details: Brenton Amies; 21 September 2009

What makes this production unique is that it’s beautifully stripped back to the bare bones of pure theatrical storytelling

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 19 September 2009

As cogent as the material is, or ought to be, it amounts to 90 minutes or so of pointlessness, with what little pathos there might've been spiralling into unintended parody.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 11 September 2009

All this hype aside, it is on several levels an excellent musical, filled with fascinating ideas, engaging characters and production values virtually second to none.

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