Reviews

Annie Get Your Guni s being presented with colour and enthusiasm by Murray Music and Drama Club (MMDC).

This production has an interesting provenance. Annie Get Your Gun was the first musical directed by Cathy Puzey for MMDC in 1993. One of her favourite shows, she thought it time for a revival, although this time they present the 1999 Broadway version rather than the original. The detailed program with photographs of the real-life inspirations for the musical, is a lovely asset to the show - well done to Tammy Peckover.

There is so much awesome Indigenous Art being presented in the Yirramboi Frist Nations Arts Festival across Melbourne.  In amongst it I was lucky enough to catch this marvelous mystical storytelling event.

After being enthusiastically greeted, the audience was warmly welcomed and walked to the garden to experience a smoking ceremony before getting comfortable around a fire bucket to enjoy most remarkable evening of story from 95-year-old Uncle Wes Marne.

Sometimes all the creative stars align to create a perfect theatre experience. After Dinner, presented by Hobart Repertory Theatre Society,was one such show – words, actors, costumes, set, lighting, timing, production crew and audience all conspired to create a wonderful play. Director Petr Divis “got” Andrew Bovell’s deliciously funny script, the actors “got” each other and the director’s intentions, and the audience “got” the result.

The Flood is a black absurd comedy set in 2011 around the Brisbane flood. Four young housemates at an existential crossroad of their lives share an old Queenslander on the Brisbane River. Glenn a corporate lawyer and Karl a photographer who writes pretentious food and coffee reviews are interrupted in their efforts to get stoned by Sandra and Damo returning home from holiday. All hell breaks loose when Sandra sees the mess the house is in and that the guys have eaten all the food in the pantry.