Sydney Reviews

Details: Brett Casben; 05 September 2007

The interest in a writer who is essentially a commentator on the moving face of social mores is likely to ebb before the tide of more current and seemingly more relevant new dramatists.

Details: Aleksei Wechter; 29 August 2007

The play opens with a deafening crash as the unimaginable is realised and a peace loving, democratic, capitalistically inclined city is reduced to nuclear waste.

Details: Rebecca Whitton; 25 August 2007

Pugilist Specialist | Darlinghurst Theatre & Flightpath Theatre

Adriano Shaplin’s play deals with a team of U.S. Marines on a covert mission to assassinate a target code named “the bearded lady” in the Middle East.

Details: Tessa Needham; 24 August 2007

Deeply Offensive & Utterly Untrue | Version 1.0

Deeply Offensive and Utterly Untrue is a performative inquiry into the transcript of the 2006 Cole Inquiry into the Oil for Food scandal.

Details: James Waites; 24 August 2007

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Sydney Theatre Company

A Midsummer Night's Dream is among the best imagined, structured and written of Shakespeare's early plays.

Details: Brett Casben; 18 August 2007

The Small Things | Splinter Theatre Company

This is the very spirit and execution of collaborative theatre in a brilliant interplay of memory and emotion which cannot help but touch the heart.

Details: Lee Bemrose; 17 August 2007

On a bare stage this charming clown was a hapless character blown from one sketch to the next.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 16 August 2007

Angry Young Women In Low-Rise Jeans With High-Class Issues

At times awkward and dull while at others riotously funny, this show is a mixed bag, but ultimately one well worth seeing.

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