Sydney Reviews

Details: Tessa Needham; 07 June 2007

Gifted and Talented treads ground that will be familiar to anyone who grew up in the heady world of child eisteddfords.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 06 June 2007

Sydney productions of The Taming of the Shrew have been few and far between in recent years. Although a highly entertaining yarn, the reason for its scarcity is doubtlessly the play’s problematic gender politics.

Details: Tessa Needham; 06 June 2007

Kellaway clearly adores the music, and nearly every time it plays his body takes over in a full-body conducting dance.

Details: Lee Bemrose; 05 June 2007

The pace of the play is downright frenetic, with actors entering and exiting at both ends of the stage, which ran between two banks of audience seats.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 05 June 2007

Energetic; confronting; confounding; confusing; challenging; comical; spectacular.

Details: lloyd bradford (brad) syke; 04 June 2007

These femme fatales probably don’t have a destructive effect on anyone but themselves; subject, as modern women are, to a relentless barrage of self-critical thoughts and self-effacing remarks.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 03 June 2007

Matthew O’Sullivan has directed a very solid production of Romeo & Juliet for the Globe Centre, using pared-back staging that relies on performance and using his comparatively small but enthusiastic cast to good effect.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 02 June 2007

Double bills such as this one can be a real delight, a welcome deviation from one’s theatregoing expectations.

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