Category: Arts In Review

A German Life — The Playhouse — Tuesday 11 to Sunday 16 May 2021
Christopher Hampton’s one-hander A German Life sets its sights on personal responsibility and ever so gently wipes away the illusions ...

The Door — Lightbulb Improv — The Courtyard Theatre — Friday 7 to Saturday 8 May 2021
An evening’s improvised theatre at The Courtyard commenced with hostess Amy Crawford’s warmly received cheerful introduction to improvised theatre’s mechanics: ...

Animal Farm — The Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre
One of George Orwell’s greatest works, first published in 1945, was the novel Animal Farm, which Orwell uses to comment ...
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[Musical-theatre review] Fangirls — The Playhouse, Wednesday 24 to Sunday 28 March 2021
Fangirls revolves around the sensation that a fictitious band’s lead singer, Harry, has stirred up in one of his millions ...

An outstanding cast and dynamic stagecraft lit up Jersey Boys @ Erindale Theatre (13 March)
Review by Rory McCartney Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons had a string of huge pop hits from the '60s ...
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[Arts Review] Music-Nature-Dance combine to deliver a beautifully staged yet strongly stated message in Symbiosis @ Australian National Botanic Gardens (7 March)
Review by Rory McCartney Run as part of this year’s Enlighten Festival, Symbiosis is an environmentally themed performance run by ...
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[Review] The Umbilical Brothers battle theft and tech to put on a new show @ Canberra Theatre Centre, 1 February
Review by Rory McCartney Kitty Flanagan did it in Canberra! Now The Umbilical Brothers are doing it, that is running ...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — Canberra REP Theatre — Thursday 18 February – Tuesday 6 March 2021
Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 1955 play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, is set in the southern Mississippi plantation home ...

Canberra 2060: Futures with a Capital F — Canberra Theatre Centre — Tuesday 1 to Saturday 5 September
Review by Michele E. Hawkins The year is 2060, and the earth is in serious trouble from multiple threats. If ...

The Last of Us Part II: An important step for queer representation in video games
Review by Jessica Conway The Last of Us is first and foremost a story. The fact that it’s a video ...