Reviews

Jules Orcullo’s musical play Forgetting Tim Minchin is a moving, hilarious, and heartbreaking story of failure and hope. Catchy, creative songs combined with fun movement and punchy dialogue make Forgetting Tim Minchin an absolute delight to watch—just be sure to bring some tissues along.

Bloomshed fearlessly explores George Orwell’s Animal Farm with delightful energy, focus and excellent characterisation and then carries the Farm into the realms of Royal Commissions and political attempts to apply and avoid accountability.

It is no use to see and listen to Far Away, trying to make ‘sense’ of it by twisting it into something ‘real’ or naturalistic.  That’s not Caryl Churchill’s way and never has been.  The text, spoken by the actors as if for them what they say is perfectly natural and ‘real’, is allusive, suggestive, metaphorical and, most of all, disturbing.  It may be disturbing much later too, after we have left the theatre, as the words and what happens on stage continue to resonate.

Glitzy, quirky, funny and searingly honest, Miss Peony is a fascinating glimpse into a world most Australians would not be familiar with, but immigrants from all nations can relate to. That is, when someone slips in between the worlds of the old country and the new country.

Lily (played originally by the playwright Michelle Law but at my performance by Stephanie Jack) is an assimilated Asian Australian who is confronted by the deathbed wish of her grandmother to follow a family tradition.