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TheatreVirgin · 28 July 2012
I've had to sit on this review for a couple of days, simply because I wasn't sure what to say. The best way I can describe Bild-Lilli is that it's a clever idea but poorly executed. But even that seem…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 24 July 2012
John Patrick Shanley is an Oscar/Tony/Pulitzer prize winning playwright and after viewing this production of The Dreamer Examines His Pillow I can easily see why. His writing is beautifully introspect…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 18 July 2012
Oh Queen Lear, how I wanted to love you. So very, very much. I tried to love you; I read about you in the program notes, I saw your beautiful advertising plastered across every tram in Melbourne, I ev…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 9 July 2012
The McNeil Project features two plays by Jim McNeil, a playwright with the kind of history worthy of its own play. McNeil wrote these plays in the early 70's during a 17 year stint at Parramatta Corre…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 25 June 2012
Loved it, loved it, loved it! This play features Rowena Hutson as a person living with Parkinson's Disease but the play is anything but sad as Hutson takes us on a journey to show just what the human…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 22 June 2012
When I read the program notes and saw that the five cast members were playing multiple characters and were clearly not sticking to their own sex/race/age, I did think to myself "oh god, I'm not going…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 18 June 2012
In this play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the central role of Jackie (Demetrios Sirilas) is a recovering alcoholic on parole. Jackie, like most of the characters in this play, is intensely passionate. I'm…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 15 June 2012
Never exposed to Shakespeare in my schooling or home life and concerned that my $75 ticket was going to amount to nothing more than 150 minutes of sheer confusion, I visited the Bell Shakespeare websi…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 11 June 2012
National Interest - at Melbourne Arts Centre for the Melbourne Theatre Company until 21 July. I have to be honest with you; I walked out of this play feeling flat. Which is a great shame because I wan…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 8 June 2012
Neil LaBute's play Reasons To Be Pretty is one in a trilogy he wrote during a ten year period that explore the themes of beauty and our obsession with appearance. But for some reason - which I am stil…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 8 June 2012
Travis Cotton's creative take on the "human against machine" argument hits the best notes in all the right places. Robots Vs Art follows the story of Giles (a seriously talented Daniel Frederiksen), a…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 3 June 2012
Circa is many things. It's gymnastics on steroids. It's dance without (seemingly) any structure and it's body work on the most intimate level. If you like, call it the language of acrobatics, it doesn…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 31 May 2012
I was lucky enough to see the very last performance of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later for 2012 so this will be a short review given there are no more performances. It is a shame it only ran for…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 31 May 2012
Just 4 plays into my theatre journey and I have to say I'm really enjoying this experience! As someone who has never experienced "the Arts" first hand before (watching Margaret and David really doesn'…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 31 May 2012
I really struggled with Uncle Vanya. Entering the beautiful venue that is 45 Downstairs, I felt transported back to a time where internet did not exist and no one knew what a mobile was - this caverno…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 31 May 2012
Billed to the masses as a "a bitingly funny, provocative drama about family, truth, and what can happen when you go against the grain of public thinking," The Heretic is theatre for every member of th…
Read more →TheatreVirgin · 31 May 2012
Before you read the rest of this review, get onto Red Stitch and buy a ticket - fast. It ends on May 26 and you need to see it. Stockholm is, at the heart of it, a study in the repercussions of love a…
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