Theatre review: The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race

State Theatre’s exuberant and entertaining new production is set in a small rural town where nothing changes, but change is overdue. Five women from Appleton chew through some timely questions about fairness, opportunity and gender equity.

Listen up for some cutting-edge drama

SA audiences starved of live theatre due to COVID-19 can now enjoy two captivating works by local playwright Elena Carapetis online: one an audio drama on a knife-edge and the other a filmed stage performance of her play The Gods of Strangers.

Deborah Galanos as Vasiliki in The Gods of Strangers. Photo: Chris Herzfeld

Theatre review: The Gods of Strangers

The Gods of Strangers will strike a chord for many theatregoers, whether involved in migration to Australia or otherwise touched by significant loss and displacement.

Gorgon: a hand-grenade of a play

A year on from the production of her highly acclaimed play ‘The Good Son’, Elena Carapetis’s new work ‘Gorgon’ hits the stage with all guns blazing.