Reviews

The Fox family live happily enough, it seems, by inner Melbourne’s Meri Creek – Athena (Kate Amos), Dexter (Michael Honeyman) and their autistic son Billy (alternating Ben Touzel and Chris Touzel) who does not speak.  But sophisticated Elizabeth (Juel Riggall), an old girlfriend of Dexter’s, shows up with her younger sister, immature hostile-dependant teenager Vicki (Lucy Schneider) and Elizabeth’s seductive musician boyfriend Philip (Adrian Li Donnni) and his young daughter Poppy (Chloe Taylor).  The Fox household seems warm and welcoming, but Ath

Lucy Kirkwood is a much-lauded playwright, described as one of the best of her generation, and this production, from Black Swan Theatre, does justice to one of her most well-known plays. Well-acted and thoughtfully directed, this production is well crafted and fascinating to watch.

This is the second production of this play in Perth, the first being Theatre 180’s excellent pre-Covid production, performed in a tiny venue, and unfortunately not widely seen. Black Swan allows this story to reach a bigger audience.

Sunset Boulevard is about a movie star past her prime, trying to reinvent her career by taking a new ill-advised direction.

As per the original movie Norma Desmond is writing a screenplay with herself as a 16- year-old in an adaptation of Salome.

Cosi Fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart holds a special place in my heart having performed as Roy in the famous Australian play Cosi which explores the patients in a mental asylum during the 1970s rehearsing their own version of this iconic opera!

The opera was performed in 1790 and was one of three written and produced operas in the space of four years. Instead of the usual 7 scenes over 2 acts, set and costume designer Elizabeth Gadsby has set the opera over two acts, in present day, in a villa on the coast of Italy.