Reviews

Produced by theatre company Fever103, the play ‘The Last Train to Madeline’, written by Callum Mackay, directed by Hayden Tonazzi, produced by Harry Dowling, was staged at The Meat Market in North Melbourne. What instantly drew me to this play was that it’s a love story. As a poet and writer who writes politically through the lens of love, I had to see what this is all about. 

I NEVER KNEW Townsville dancer, Leslie Brown, who sadly passed away on Christmas Day last year, but if the overwhelming sense of perception and emotional celebration that imbued this entire production is anything to go by, then he must have been really extraordinary.

Leslie Brown was a dancer with Ulysses for some years, and for the past 17 years this company has been staging an annual production with dancers drawn chiefly from the Ann Roberts School of Dance, proving again just what can be – and continues to be – achieved in the Townsville community. 

[Your Name] is an original play that offers a refreshing and heartfelt exploration of teenage friendship and the allure of fanfiction. The play is about three teen girls who are working together to write a reader-insert Harry Potter spoof fanfiction. One of the young ladies, Petra (played by Evelina Singh), decides that it is vital to their story to write a steamy scene between the love interest, Larry (Andrew Fraser), and their main character, [Your Name].

One could be forgiven for thinking this was a teenage crowd, such was the screaming welcome to Patti LuPone to the Festival Theatre stage. Whoops and cries of recognition did not let up throughout the next two hours in the company of one of the world’s most talented musical theatre performers.