Reviews

Blanc de Blanc is a well-polished blend of the sophisticated, the risqué, and the absurd in the form of brief dances, acrobatic acts, mock cabaret, and interspersed tableaux, all in a spirit of play.  Careful choreography and catchy energetic music make this a performance that can lift your spirits without blowing your eardrums.  Well-balanced, clean sound; judicious use of fog on which to display the lighting; and amusing lip-synching rounded out the performance’s

Composer and Lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s enchanting musical A Little Night Music was first performed in 1973 and although many feminists would balk at some of its lyrical content, it has lost none of its charm. With a book by Hugh Wheeler, and inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it is easy to see why it continues to be performed the world over.

Mr Bailey is a cantankerous, unlikeable alcoholic, who also happens to be a great artist and an Australian living treasure. Only one of his many children is willing to help him, and then only at arm’s length. She hires Therese, a girl with a checkered background, to be Leo Bailey’s live-in minder.

The electoral euphoria of Britain’s historic Labour landslide in July 1945 following Germany’s Second World War surrender on May 8th is the background for Patrick Marber’s After Miss Julie, an English reworking of Strindberg’s 1889 classic. Originally written for BBC television in 1995, the story relocates the Swedish setting of Strindberg’s original to a country house outside London, with the central character the daughter of a Labour peer who clearly loathes the lower-classes he represents.