Tuesday 12 November 2024 Seymour Centre Soft Tread Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) It is with mixed emotions that we say farewell to a 25 year old theatre institution, the Wharf Revue. Writers Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott have decided to call it a day to “spend more time with family” and […]
Sunday 10 November 2024 Old Fitz Theatre Rogue Projects Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) From time to time a play comes along that challenges your beliefs, but then flips it all around so you find yourself thinking that is exactly what I believe. Then it does it again, and again, and again until you […]
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Thursday 31 October 2024 Bondi Pavilion Moira Blumenthal Productions Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) The Kingdom of Eucalypts is a powerful play that explores many controversial themes while telling the story of one of Australia’s best known writers, Miles Franklin. Playwright Alice Spigelman asks us to grapple with race, feminism, political ideology, the role […]
Sunday 22 September, 2024 Old Fitz Theatre New Ghosts Theatre Company Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Sitting, Screaming is a virtuoso theatre work for a solo actor that examines some dark themes in the life of a troubled teenage girl dealing with multiple distressing factors in her life as she edges towards adulthood. Writer, […]
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APRIL 18, 2024 Seymour Centre, Sydney Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Potted Potter is ostensibly a show for kids, but don’t be fooled, this adult, with all the others, found himself laughing and intrigued from beginning to end – my inner child enthralled by the magic of the two man parody of the JK […]
March 30, 2024 Belvoir St Theatre Review by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Holding the Man is the memoir of Timothy Conigrave, written after the death of his lover John Caleo from AIDS in 1992, and published a few months after his own death two years later. It tells the story of their 15 year love […]
Alone It Stands The Ensemble Theatre, 3 February 2024. Reviewed by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Putting my personal biases to one side, that was the most multi-talented cast I’ve seen on stage. Each actor was expert at changing characters and accents in a millisecond, enacting difficult choreography and complex physical theatre in a high-speed relentless […]
The Lonesome West Old Fitz Theatre, 18 January 2024. Reviewed by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) This has to be the best ensemble cast I have seen in a very long time. The acting second to nothing I’ve ever experienced in live theatre. The Lonesome West in the hands of Empress Theatre’s creative team turned this […]
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