Reviews

After six weeks of impressive impro and competitive comedy, six teams met for the Cagefight finale! A chance to improvise brilliantly enough to win over the audience – and a cheque for $2,000.  So great had the following for the competing teams grown, that organiser Dave Crisante had to move the event from the cosy cheeriness of the Chippendale Hotel to the cavernous capacity of the Factory Theatre. Undeterred by rain, the audience – friends and family; young, older and very old!

If you fancy an off-Broadway experience this Spring, there’s no need to spend money on a flight to New York – a bus ride to the Burke Street Studio Theatre at Woolloongabba will do the trick. In their close-to-final production for 2022, the acting students from Griffith Uni’s Performing Arts course have a real hit on their hands. Stephen Adly Guirgis’s play was first directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman at New York’s Public Theatre in 2005.

Harbour Theatre’s The Ladykillers is a comedic thriller of sorts. Featuring one of the sweetest heroines of the year, this is a story full of hijinks that keeps its audience entertained throughout.

When Mrs Wilberforce takes on a new lodger, she is unwittingly drawn into the machinations of a crime gang. When she seems to know too much, they decide that she must be eliminated.

Theatre 180’s Blue/Orange is an expertly constructed, cleverly directed and beautifully performed drama, that keeps its audience intrigued and fascinated throughout. Performed in the round in the intimate confines of Burt Memorial Hall, patrons are close to the action and feel drawn into the world of this Olivier award winning play.