Review – Canvases
A combination of contemporary dance, live art and video art, this performance piece was well-paced and specific while remaining open to interpretation.
Category: Theatre
Review – 12 Angry Men
The Victorian Supreme Court is not the kind of place you would immediately think of as a theatre venue, but it’s rather fitting that it would be the performance space for Bottled Snail’s production of 12 Angry Men.
Review – Papillon
If the Romans had it right, all we need in life is bread and circuses. I had a sandwich before seeing circus-cabaret mash-up Papillon and was thus halfway to a fulfilling life. That’s about as close as I got.
Review – This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Aside from the fact that she is incredibly musically gifted, her easy-going, lightly self-deprecating humour draws the audience in and leaves them audibly sighing for more. Literally.
Review – Pronounced L-O-V-E of the Man Đ
Emily Tomlins gives an astounding performance as the troubled, stuttering, androgynous Đ (pronounced ‘dj’), swinging from mood to mood with intensity and depth through an excitingly devastating emotional journey.
Review – The Last Temptation of Randy
We are all victim to temptation; even if our heads are purple and made of felt.
Review – Run Girl Run
Get your running shoes on; a gripping, funny, original, suspenseful piece of theatre that should not be missed.
Review – The Good Girl
Who would have thought that a sci-fi black comedy about a malfunctioning sex-bot could go so deep?
Review – Bushpig
This is exactly the sort of theatre the Fringe is for: small, crafted, ambitious, glamorous, dark, magical and profound.
Review – The Yeti
Tony’s performance was word perfect and engaging… The characters of his past were brought to life on the stage before us with poetic beauty; their flaws and their foibles amounting to loveable one-of-a-kind personalities.
Review – It’s Happening in the Space Between My Face and Yours
If you’re a young woman who walks home alone at nighttime do not see this play. Its message: you will be captured and killed, your housemates will smoke all of your Champion Ruby, and you will be replaced by a guy who drinks all the soy-milk.
Review – Fever!
There is seriously something wrong with you if you don’t want to see two sexy scantily clad women with amazing pins and pipes singing smut.
Review – Some Plays
Sweet, grounded and self deprecating, this show is for all those who, even out of their twenties, are a little shy and unsure of themselves.
Review – This Old Man
At first squizz, you could be forgiven for thinking this was a comedy. While three old tipsy sheilas do provide comic relief between the tears of a family tearing itself apart, this is very much a deadset drama that cuts right through the crap.
Review – Space Encounters
Space Encounters is a delightful little musical, entertaining and thoughtful, with enough going on at all levels to keep the family entertained.
