Theatre review: Watchlist

Overflowing with wit and mercurial polemic, Watchlist at The Bakehouse is an ambitious comedy with a sharp message.

Theatre review: Billy Elliot The Musical

The musical version of the loved film poses some challenges to an audience as it winds its way to an inspirational ending via a thicket of broad northern accents, coal-mining politics, death, loss and poverty.

The Australian cast of 1984. Photo: Shane Reid

Theatre review: 1984

Emerging from this outstanding stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, you feel something like Winston Smith leaving the Ministry of Love: psychologically crushed and grateful for it.

Theatre review: Fawlty Towers - Live

Fawlty Towers – Live seamlessly merges several episodes of the original show, reminding us of so much that was endearing about the original. To treat it as merely a sentimental trip back to the celebrated comedy series, however, would be to overlook the freshness and the quality of performances brought to it by the current cast.

Theatre review: Machu Picchu

Australian writer Sue Smith’s Machu Picchu is about relationships: how they can be torn apart, how they can achieve longevity and how the sparks that initiated them can be reignited.