Reviews

As a young woman in the mid-1930s, the naive and apolitical Brunhilde Pomsel found herself seconded to the Department of Propaganda to work as a secretary for Joseph Goebbels. She went on to live to 106 and was one of the last people alive who had been with the Nazi elite right up until the end. Based on many hours of interviews conducted in 2012 for a documentary, Christopher Hampton’s play accurately captures her voice—intelligent, pragmatic, articulate and resourceful. She was also ordinary and not evil. She had Jewish friends. Her father had Jewish clients.

Putting on a Shakespeare comedy must be like asking a performer to play the guitar, juggle, and tell jokes at the same time. There are so many individual elements that the writer has threaded together to form his canvas. In Taming of the Shrew, he plays with the Italian commedia dell'arte style and the 'masked' characters and situations that audiences expected in the 17th century, while smuggling in an unexpected love story.

Playwright. director and co-founder of The Wolves Theatre Company Michael Gray Griffith presents 70 minutes of mesmerizing, thought provoking and often times nail-biting theatre.   

Here is a fractured tale of a mystery, guilt, missed chances, cryptic crosswords, and of memories lost and found.  Germaine (Uschi Felix) is resident in an ‘aged care facility’ in the country town of Trentham.  She says she was a journalist who covered the big stories.  She believes she still is – and her bedroom is her office.  She has the clippings of those big stories, but we are never quite sure whether her memories are true - or fantasy.