Reviews

Incognito is a farcical – well, absurd - spoof on those Agatha Christie mysteries in which members of an ill-matched but well-heeled group are picked off one by one.  Set in an exclusive health spa in the Swiss Alps, the characters are soon snowed in, trapped with the murderer - who can only be one of them. And the police cannot get there till morning. 

Come From Away has finally made it to Brisbane and the production that was on display last night is a carbon copy of the Broadway original. Directed by Christopher Ashley, who directed it on Broadway, its honorable intentions and feel-good vibe, not to mention the occasional moist-eye, should see it do similar business to that in Melbourne, where it broke the box-office record at the Comedy Theatre.

The Caucasian Chalk Circle is an often studied, and consequently an often detested work, but this production, performed by WAAPA’s Third Year Performance Making students is a dynamic, beautifully cohesive and sensitively performed incarnation, that charms its (too small) audience and is simply the best version of this play I have ever seen (and I have seen it many, many times).

Colour-Fool is a bold theatrical experiment which explores the confusion and anxiety that characterises the new normal in a global pandemic context. Yumi Umiumare orchestrates an environment which is everything but normal and this a recurrent thread throughout the entire performance. It quickly becomes clear to expect the unexpected.