Reviews

Mel O’Brien and Samantha Andrew are dressed as primary school (Year 6) girls in those uniforms primary school kids have to wear – in this case bright yellow tops, red pants and, of course, wide-brimmed red hats. 

Zoë Coombs Marr is an entertaining absurdist who noodles around with time even if her stories are about her ‘ordinary’ experiences as a precocious, sexually conflicted, flute-playing teenager.  She takes a key incident from those years and spirals away from it and spirals back to it – as if she is starting her story (or stories) and the show itself, all over again. 

One for the Road is a well-presented comedy, by Wanneroo Repertory Club, that is entertaining full capacity houses at the Limelight Theatre.

On the eve of his 50th birthday, Dennis makes an attempt to escape his middle-class, housing-estate existence.

Written in 1976, first performed in 1980 and updated by the author in 1985, director James Hough Neilson sets this production in the mid-1980s, as little details of this show firmly place it as a period-piece, although it remains relevant and funny. 

Effervescent Nikki Britton’s plan is to tell us the story of her holiday in Europe – with some diversions to another holiday, with her Mum, to Vanuatu.  Unfortunately, on the night I saw her show, she was interrupted by an audience member, Theresa (‘They call me “Mother”’) who, bobbing up and down, answered a standard question Nikki Britton had unwisely asked.  ‘How are we all tonight?’  Etc.  Theresa, who may or may not have ever been to a live show before, but seemed to think she was a hoot, explained that she was only th