Reviews

Viewpoints...

“Things, seen from one angle, look entirely different when seen from another – but things don’t change. Their status of being is relative to our perspective.” This is a viewpoint I highly respect and it would appear to be a driver of the action in this play.

First time director Gai Byrne has put together an entertainment featuring a variety of songs and sketches covering the era from the 1930’s to 1950’s.

With a beautifully dressed cast of 20, the program includes popular songs made famous by Vera Lynne, “Old Blue Eyes” and Dean Martin to name a few, and even has a section showcasing Burlesque Queen Tracey “Fleur” Lord, complete with feathered fans, and stripping down to a couple of “doo dahs”.

KADS brings the beautiful story of The Rainmaker to their Kalamunda stage, with a nicely presented production of N. Richard Nash's  romantic.

Set in Kansas, in 1935 in a drought, Alistair Woodcock and Geoff Rumsey's set recreates the Curry household, the local sheriff's office and the Curry's tack-room with detail and accuracy, with costuming by Rose Weighell also helping to recreate the era. James Glasson and Stephen Marr's lighting design adds to the feeling of heat and dryness, while the sound design by Lindsay Goodwin and Julie Hicking adds whimsy.

Sword fighting, swash-buckling heroism, a conniving cardinal, a kitsch king and an aldulterous queen! What’s not to like?

This production is a bit of fun that’s fairly well done for a community theatre and some actors who have never held a sword before! They look good, they fight well and they do their best with a script that is an ambitious adaptation of a well known and oft’ adapted novel.