Reviews

Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical was a nostalgic, 1980s-style celebration of the weird and wonderful world created in the hit Netflix show Stranger Things. Featuring big hair, bigger vocals, and an upside-down sense of fun, this high-energy musical was packed with retro dance moves, brilliantly funny dialogue, and impressively tight harmonies. The moment the lights came up, it was clear this show wasn’t just a loving send-up of a pop culture juggernaut—it was a polished, imaginative, and uproariously funny piece of musical theatre in its own right.

From the pen of director and writer Cate Whittaker comes The Amazing Lucas Girls, a play that breathes life into the courageous and inspiring true story of the Ballarat Lucas factory girls at E. Lucas & Co. Pty Ltd. This firm designed and manufactured women's clothing during the dark days of WWI. 

Abigail Williams is a poignant and electrifying theatrical piece that held the audience from the moment the lights dimmed. Set against an eerie black stage (Salem in 1692, Broadway in 1953 and Sydney in 2025), this scintillating production reimagines the infamous tale of Abigail Williams in a one-woman performance that leaves one questioning the very nature of villainy, truth, and survival.

A woman visits her scientist sister in Geneva. Alice, the Swiss-based sibling, is focused entirely on her work at the Large Hadron Collider, ignoring her teenage son. Jenny is dealing with the grief of losing a child to a disease preventable by a vaccine she didn’t trust.

Neither woman has their child’s father in their lives – nor has their ageing mother, Karen, who is long divorced from their father and needing increasing care, has accompanied Jenny to Geneva.