Whilst these adaptations are perfectly fine, there’s an anachronism that can accompany any production put to stage from another era. There’s merit in rote for rote recreations, but I will always prefer a distortion of a classic akin to what Zoe Le Marinel, Jasmine Jenkins, and their team have put to the stage with SUDS Slot 4’s Deathwatch (1947) by Jean Genet.
Read MoreThe liminal area between teendom and adulthood, between Sydney and Melbourne, between friends and enemies, between ad breaks. Everything that happens within is transitional and temporary: “all we do [at Troy’s house] is recount the last event and talk about the next one.”
Read MoreThere’s a heavy weight here. Human Activity bears it exceptionally well.
Read More‘The Spare Keys’ in Make Love, Not Instruments take you by the hand on a vocal journey, sonically stunning with a rich setlist of showtunes, mid-century love songs and modern belters.
Read MoreCoffee to the architect is what sexual frustration is to the engineer. A point of conversation, a particular quirk, one’s whole personality.
Read MoreI walked slowly into the crowd, a sea of five hundred poised to learn something about music, life, religion thought impossible.
Read MoreBrilliantly adapted by directors Kieran Casey and Charlie Papps, the production offers a night of gut-wrenching laughter and meta-theatrical analysis in their double (O’) bill of two modern absurdist classics
Read MoreWith their shaggy hair and electric sound, the quartet seemed like a relic from the 1970s rock scene blended with 21st century anxieties.
Read MoreBinary opposites become whole in SUDS’ vibrant reimagining of the play, and though its discussions of thermodynamics, aesthetics, and sex may at first seem arbitrary, they have profound intention.
Read MoreDanial Yazdani’s adaptation of the American classic honours the complexities of Australian immigrant experiences.
Read MoreCrackling with the electricity of theatre, Heat Lightning captures characters grappling with economic hardship and emotional unrest.
Read MoreMr. Squiggle’s SUDS ascendancy
Read MoreImaginative theatre has a new set of puppet masters
Read MoreThere’s nothing more Popular than laughter.
Read MoreMUSE makes a wager on a classic musical and wins big.
Read MoreThe veritable Brendon Uries of Australia’s top-ranked medical school parlayed three years of momentum into what was, at times, a double-edged sword.
Read MoreThe Arts are out, STEM is in, and Play School is in trouble.
Read MoreA blend of painted and performed art, MUSE manages to rub its stomach and pat its head.
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