Reviews

This musical follows the path of young students as they strive to have a school dance, something we take for granted. It begins with a teenager, Ren McCormack, who loves to dance to relax and what happens when he and his mother have to move from Chicago to an ultra-conservative town named Bomont. After a tragic death of four teenagers some four years before, the town had banned dancing, along with many other joys of the young, under the direction of Reverend Shaw Moore, an ultra conservative.

The Sorry Mum Project

Written and performed by Pippa Ellams

Directors: Hannah Goodwin, Tasha O’Brien

A visceral set and soundscape, that enveloped this gripping play, made this night in the theatre resonate deep in your bones. It opens in complete darkness, with the screeching sound of cicadas getting louder and louder.

When the lights finally come up, we see the chaos of the inside of a southern American homestead - the crumbling deceased estate of the patriarch of the dysfunctional Lafayette clan.

Conviction is a postmodern, ‘anything goes’ one-act play in three slices, each one taking us inside the mind of a young female playwright – in a play by a young female playwright. The character is named ‘Zoey’ and is a semi-fictional version of the playwright herself as she procrastinates her way through the day, with looming deadlines and domestic pressures.