Reviews

Gender bending may seem a modern idea but 90 years ago novelist Virginia Woolf was creating Orlando, a handsomely hosed, favourite page boy of old Elizabeth I, who is later transformed into a woman and projected through the centuries. 

Woolf’s inspiration, back in the 1920’s, was her new lover, the shape-shifting lesbian Vita Sackville-West and her rather aristocratic ancestors.  

When you hear the words 'Greased Lightning', you can't help but feel the need to dance and sing along to one of the world's most loved musicals. In Phoenix Ensemble’s production of Grease, the cast and crew delivered one brilliant night out.

David Williamson’s Soulmates exemplifies the cutting wit and bitingly humorous insights into human nature this most well-known of Australian playwrights infuses into all his works. However, like other plays that are presented through many scenes in multiple settings, such as Williamson’sTravelling North, Soulmates is certainly not an easy play to stage. It moves instantly and often between Melbourne and New York and from the Bahamas to Australia’s Hayman Island.

Bruce Edwards, producer, compere, stand-up comedian and actor was deservedly in the spotlight last night as host to a selection of opera and musical theatre excerpts performed with an additional cast of four, underground, in one of Brisbane's historical landmarks right near the famous Old Windmill. This is a continuation of a series of concerts designed for alternative settings ripe for acoustic richness and resonance while experiencing the impact of being up, close and personal with the performers.