Playwave Creative
REVIEW: The Pigeons
David Gieselmann’s The Pigeons, presented by The Other Theatre in association with KXT bAKEHOUSE Theatre, is 75 minutes of farcical chaos. It’s fast paced, ridiculous and perfectly captures the bureaucratic purgatory of office life riddled with infidelity, bullying and embezzlement.
REVIEW: August: Osage County
Belvoir’s 2024 lineup of productions has been one of its most impressive seasons yet, taking audiences on adventures into the idiosyncratic lives of countless characters. To end on a high note is more than ideal, and if it’s done successfully, it is a great triumph for any theatre company going into their 2025 season It is without a doubt that Belvoir has achieved this, programming Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama August: Osage County as its grand finale of the year.
REVIEW: Dignified Exit
Dignified Exit is the debut of Young Company, a group of six young creatives who worked to devise this production throughout the course of the year. Every part of the production, including the writing, sound design and lighting design, were all developed by this young team.
REVIEW: McGuffin Park
Ambition, ego and optimism collide in Ensemble Theatre’s recent production of McGuffin Park. While it’s message relevant and it’sits delivery charming, McGuffin Park fails falls short to truly dig deep into the rich and complex world of Australian democracy.
REVIEW: Hedda Gabler
With countless adaptations and reworkings since its debut, Hedda Gabler sits on the same bookshelf as classics lauded for decades now. One of Henrik Ibsen’s masterpieces, Secret House resurrects the original text with Anthony Skuse’s version, staged at KXT on Broadway.
SPOTLIGHT: Danial Yazdani
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REVIEW: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of a Dog in The Night-Time follows the story of 15-year-old Christopher after he discovers his neighbour’s dog Wellington dead in their front yard. After a run-in with police, he decides to make it his mission to find out the culprit.
REVIEW: Snail and Rocks
Snail meets Rocks in the forest after they run away from their lives unhappy with their circumstances. They wish that they could change places, with Snails becoming human, and Rocks becoming a forest gremlin. Then they encounter a being called Ordos, who grants them this on the condition that they must climb the hierarchy.
REVIEW: The Cherry Orchard
In what is arguably the strangest place for a theatre – the basement of a 150-year-old pub - the strangest reworking of an old classic takes centre stage. Russian dramatist Anton Chekov’s final play, The Cherry Orchard, is com
REVIEW: Uncle Vanya
Joanna Murray-Smith, who adapted Ibsen’s A Doll’s House for the Ensemble not too long ago, returns and tackles another classic with much success: Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya. Having originated and reworked from one of Chekov’s earlier and unsuccessful play
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REVIEW: King Lear
Bell Shakespeare’s King Lear takes a slick, minimalistic approach to a grand tragedy. While more forgiving theatregoers might embrace this creative decision as a means through which the play’s key concerns are condensed for an intimate theatre space
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