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Mr. Inkleigh: An Urban Portrait Of Surveillance, Paranoia, And Existential Anxiety

REVIEW BY ZENA WANG EDITED BY RACHEL THORNBY In contemporary theatre, exploring how to present the complexity of social structures through everyday narratives is an extremely challenging task. Mr. Inkleigh, written by Ben Jamieson-Hoare and directed by Katherine Bragagnolo, is precisely such a work — it uses an ordinary apartment building as a vehicle to weave a modern parable about loneliness, surveillance, paranoia, and the … Continue reading Mr. Inkleigh: An Urban Portrait Of Surveillance, Paranoia, And Existential Anxiety

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MUST’s The Mutineers: A Nostalgic Rebellion 

REVIEW BY ZENA WANG EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Student theatre thrives when it dares to capture both the nostalgia of the past and the restlessness of youth. The Mutineers, set in the very old English grammar school–styled Bellview Academy, does exactly that. With its 1990s backdrop of cassette tapes and schoolyard banter, the production becomes not just a story about teenagers, but a reflection on … Continue reading MUST’s The Mutineers: A Nostalgic Rebellion 

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Above Sea Level’s Endpapered Does Everything Right For A Play That Goes Wrong

REVIEW BY AKSHITA BENNY EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Anyone who has ever done theatre knows the desperation of when things go wrong. Or if they have not experienced it themselves, they would at least have heard the horror stories. Maybe it was a skipped scene or a missing prop, an actor going on stage at the wrong time, or an incorrect cue from the bio … Continue reading Above Sea Level’s Endpapered Does Everything Right For A Play That Goes Wrong

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A Plum Job: Citizen Theatre’s Ripening

REVIEW BY CHARLOTTE FRASER EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT An air of softness hums through the Gasworks Studio from the moment the audience begins filing in. A gentle light envelops the space, welcoming and warm. Delicate music drones, disrupted only by the soft chatter and clinking of a few wine glasses. A room full of women – mothers, grandmothers, midwives – all eager to see the … Continue reading A Plum Job: Citizen Theatre’s Ripening

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The Banquet Guide: A Boisterous Night In

REVIEW BY TARAS SCURRY EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT In Element Theatre Company’s original comedy The Banquet Guide by Esther Li,  on a weekend night the comedy divulges into the quirky and licentious lives of one house and its guests. Entering the brilliantly intimate setting that is the Guild Theatre, where the seats seemed to cling right above the stage, I looked down. At first, in … Continue reading The Banquet Guide: A Boisterous Night In

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Everyday Rewards With The Beauty of Simplicity

REVIEW BY ANNA RYLEY EDITED BY AUDREY MCKENZIE Taking snapshots of the nameless and lifeless who co-exist amongst us, Everyday stops to consider the rich stories that surround us when we are forced to pause.  I was initially hesitant as to how a play could keep an audience engaged with such a bare set, small cast and minimal action, but I needn’t have worried in … Continue reading Everyday Rewards With The Beauty of Simplicity

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Grab Your Torches and Enter the World of Exit the Boy

REVIEW BY POPPY ELFICK EDITED BY OLIVIA DI GRAZIA CIPTA’s Exit the Boy plays in the realm between humour and horror to shine the lantern-light on religious trauma in a captivating tale of spirits and sleeping bags.  At Father Kirk’s sleep-away bible camp, two boys find themselves confronted by an unknown force they believe to be a demon while sleeping, for 4 nights in a … Continue reading Grab Your Torches and Enter the World of Exit the Boy

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Medusa and the Ouroboros of Violence Against Women

REVIEW BY AZMY AZURITE EDITED BY AUDREY MCKENZIE Medusa may have been blindfolded yet I left the theatre gagged.  Medusa sheds light on the horror of being a woman in an age of gendered violence, recontextualising a famous Greek myth in such a way that it reverberated down to my bone marrow. This is the third production by Four Letter Word Theatre that I have … Continue reading Medusa and the Ouroboros of Violence Against Women

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Again: Table For One’s Call To Look Back

Reviewed by: Bronte Lemaire “Listen to your parents, they say. They aren’t here anymore. But I can still hear them.” Table for One is a new play written and directed by Lana Rosalea, presented by Eleven Eleven Theatre. It follows five past lives of a soul: the haunting Gretta (Akshita Benny), who repeats the word “again”; the well-acclaimed but repressed actress and writer, Grace (Lauren … Continue reading Again: Table For One’s Call To Look Back

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