Category: Performing Art

Performing Art

Oct 13

THEATRE – 12 Angry Men – HST – 5K

This simply is perhaps the best theatre you will see all year – it certainly has been for this reviewer – with an experienced and talented cast at the top of their games. 5K

Oct 07

THEATRE – The Effect – UATG – Little Theatre – 4K

While The Effect is by no means a text book on how medical trials are actually conducted, the impacts on the participants and their various and very separate motivations keep the emotions of the audience engaged. 4K

Oct 02

THEATRE – OZ ASIA – Skin – Maj Gallery – 4.5K

Brave, (no doubt mighty expensive to stage), but highly rewarding, Skin embraces what it means to reach the boundary of our existence. Surely, the highlight of this year’s OzAsia. 4.5K

Oct 01

THEATRE – OZ ASIA – God Bless Baseball – Space Theatre – 3.5K

God Bless Baseball is an engaging opportunity to be immersed in the twin and overlapping worlds of East Asia countries and the game itself. 3.5K

Sep 22

THEATRE – OZ ASIA – The Record – Space Theatre – 3K

Interesting, worth the trip from home, but not sure I would want to pay to see it again. 3K

Sep 16

THEATRE – A Steady Rain – Lost in Translation – HST – 4K

For intense theatre, the aptly named A Steady Rain delivers a punch and if one missed it in March, do not again now. 4K

Sep 01

THEATRE – Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense – Her Majesty’s – 4K

The acting and stage craft is, as one would expect of seasoned British performers, brilliant. 4K

Aug 24

THEATRE – The 39 Steps – Playhouse – 4.5K

This is comic theatre at its best. 4.5K

Aug 19

THEATRE – Titus Andronicus – Red Phoenix Theatre – HST – 3.5K

If slaughter is your thing, get off your couches shaped by hours before Game of Thrones and take in how it used to be done, live on stage. 3.5K

Aug 13

GUITAR FESTIVAL – Lord Byron’s Don Juan – Tama Matheson and Karin Schaupp – 4.5K

Matheson’s Lord Byron’s Don Juan is a gem, a quinella of consummate writing and delivery, a gripping tale of a free spirit accompanied by rhythms of love, passion and struggle. 4.5K