Monthly Archives: October, 2018

spot_img

Theatre Now Review: On The Screen – King Lear [National Theatre Live]

Con's Score: 4.5 Alaks Alak! The brilliant Sir Ian McKellen treads the boards again and chose to have another crack at Lear in a more ‘intimate...

Theatre Now Review [On The Screen]: Beautiful Boy

Con's Score: 3.5 Bubbling spoons It’s because of the perceived self-inflicted nature of drug overdoses that people lack the sympathy for victims. I wasn’t aware it’s...

Theatre Now – On The Screen Review: Book Week

Con's Score: 3.5 Paperbacks It’s a week parents have come to hate, and it appears teachers do too. Especially, unpublished English teachers who have their mediocrity...

Theatre Now Review: Of Mice and Men

Some writers see the human condition so clearly that their story-telling – the means by which we connect and try to make sense of...

Theatre Now Review: Scenes From A Marriage

Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage was ground-breaking when it aired as a television mini-series in the 70s; taking realism to the point of...

Theatre Now Review – On The Screen: Venom 4D

Con's Score: 4 Slimy smiling beasties Event Cinema has installed one of two 4D Cinemas in Australia and are using Venom to launch. This isn’t just...

Theatre Now Review: An Enemy of the People

As I write this, a headline has just popped up on newsfeed: “TV Reporter who exposed corruption in the EU found brutally murdered and...

Theatre Now Review On Sounds: The Cellists of The Metropolitan Orchestra

The well-spoken leader of the ensemble pronounced, ’We don’t need the violin section’ to a packed theatre, which raised a laugh in the audience...

Theatre Now Review: Yen

Anna Jordan’s Yen will make you laugh, but it will also make you squirm. You’ll feel the feelings of dread beginning to tighten in...

Theatre Now Talks to Hayley Pearl about Yen and the Current Political Landscape.

Following its sold out opening, YEN by Anna Jordan, presented by New Ghosts Theatre Company and Bakehouse Theatre Co, has received critical acclaim for its performances,...

Theatre Now Review: What The Butler Saw

There are no butlers in What the Butler Saw, just as there are no secrets. However, there is plenty of clever dialogue, sardonic epigrams, cross-dressing,...

TN Review On Sounds: The Curly Pyjama Letters

An intriguing program was on offer last Sunday, a day bathed in gloriously warm sunshine though coupled with crippling trackwork on the Sydney rail...