Reviews

A full length play with only two actors and little movement is an extremely difficult production to sustain. However, actors Kirsty Veron (Sheila) and Jacqui Stephens (Bridie) prove more than capable of keeping the audience’s attention. 

The Shoe-Horn Sonata is about two former nurses who were captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942 and imprisoned in Sumatra. Though personally close during their confinement, they have since grown apart and only come together again many years later for a television documentary.

NLTC’s Billy Elliot was well received by an enthusiastic audience on opening night. Many supportive families cheered and clapped their loved ones on stage and the joy in the auditorium was palpable.

This theatre company prides itself on bringing good theatre to our community and as a group they are a well-oiled machine from costumes to sets to music and performers. Having a cast of very youthful players is always a challenge and suffice to say the children in the show bring exuberance and fun at every opportunity.

What seems to’ve caught Nicolette Minster’s eye, and sparked her speculative imagination, was a news story about a snorkeller in full wet-suit gear being found drowned miles from the sea.  Weird, eh?  Turns out there is an explanation.  A helicopter was involved... And water.

That’s Two, Thank You is a new annual dance festival celebrating “the art of the duet”.  Featuring local, regional, national, and international artists, the festival shows how “two bodies can dance a whole world of stories”. Some are intimate, some whimsical, some philosophical. They are told in innovative choreography that fuses dance and theatre in a myriad of ways.