Reviews – Archive

Under Milk Wood

None of these minor points can detract from the outstanding quality of this production of Under Milk Wood. On the whole, it just felt right.

May 19 2008 | View Comments

Rapunzel’s Last Midnight

By Stephe Harrop

Somewhere in all this, there’s a neat, touching, melancholy little musical, about shifting from the black notes to the white, and believing in the possibility of happy endings, despite experience.

May 15 2008 | View Comments

Spring Awakening

By Jens Peters

If Spring Awakening were a painting, it would resemble the works of German Expressionists such as Emil Nolde or Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

May 14 2008 | View Comments

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

By Jens Peters

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot could make a good TV sitcom, but it fails to rise to the interpersonal demands of the stage.

May 11 2008 | View Comments

The Cows Come Home

By Stephe Harrop

The Cows Come Home is an enigmatic experience that resonates in some place deeper and stranger than the intellect.

May 8 2008 | View Comments

The Only Girl in the World

By Stephe Harrop

The Only Girl in the World insists upon the importance of remembering the real people who get lost when public horrors shatter hidden, private lives.

May 4 2008 | View Comments

Witchcraft

By Stephe Harrop

Witchcraft is definitely not for the linguistically faint-hearted, nor for those who can’t handle a few clunking plot-devices.

May 2 2008 | View Comments

Tinderbox

By Stephe Harrop

In the end, Tinderbox is an entertaining and strangely uplifting little piece, if scarcely profound.

Apr 30 2008 | View Comments

Fram

By Stephe Harrop

In this tragedy without a chorus, Murray’s open-mouthed mask remains mute, and no amount of impassioned testimony can bring the sprawling drama to any sort of resolution.

Apr 18 2008 | View Comments

Sam Walters has unearthed a monumentally unfashionable old play that packs a hefty moral punch, and asks questions about the cost of personal freedom that many a liberated (post)modern would baulk at.

Mar 27 2008 | View Comments