Reviews

George and Martha have been in an embittered marriage for more than twenty years.  Not content to tear strips off one another — Martha with outright aggression and George with infuriating passive aggression — they like to involve unsuspecting others in their dysfunctional relationship, in a little game called ‘Get the Guests’.


My Fair Lady — that beloved musical that has delighted several generations — is back, with its endearing story and songs such as “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly”, “I Could Have Danced All Night”, “On the Street Where You Live”, and “Get Me to the Church on Time”.

K-Box is a play that has a refreshing approach to a much-neglected topic. George and Shirley's daughter, Lucy, has yet to come to terms with the complications of being Korean and having white, Anglo-Saxon adoptive parents. The cultural implications of this begin to have an impact on her psyche as she gets older so she returns to the suburban family home to take a step back from her life. The white, middle-class privileged atmosphere is wonderfully constructed in the set and in the highly accurate stereotyping of Lucy's parents.

It’s only fitting that Silence return to HOTA, the virtual place of its birth, at a time when our “new”ish PM is finally listening to the calls to end the silence which has been crippling reconciliation for the last 250 plus years. It’s about the silence of non-response, of muted muffled arguments, and pleas that are knowingly not heard. It has potent and poignant points to make. Most of all, it’s about the need for a Treaty - for all our sakes.