Reviews

What do you do when you’re a young, gifted musical theatre fan who has been diagnosed as neurodiverse, you are seeking a girlfriend, and searching for suitable role models along the way? Well, if you are Oliver Hetherington-Page, you write a cabaret about your experiences in your 24-year-old life so far and you sing about it, loud and proud.

Following on their success with Medea, the Metropolitan present one the world’s most cherished operas, La Traviata, in a fresh production for the cinema that sparkles and glitters while still giving us the drama we expect.

“Post Covid” Sydney is seeing some new, interesting and innovative arts venues. Meraki Arts Bar on busy Oxford Street is one of them. True to its name, it’s all about the arts. There’s an exhibition of art works on the ground floor, music on the first floor, and Corvus Arts production of The Dazzle tucked on the second floor. Every floor has its own bar, the décor is charming, and the pies and chips they offer are very ‘select’!

This is the result of a terrific ‘what if’. What if, Hilary Bell had wondered, A Christmas Carol was presented by the Crummles Family, the fantastic theatrical troupe from that other Charles Dickens’ masterpiece Nicholas Nickleby. You’d have Vincent Crummles playing Ebenezer Scrooge, and the rest of the family doubling and trebling, including Ninetta, the Infant Phenomenon, supposedly 10 years old but actually looking 20+.