Reviews

While David Williamson’s Let the Sunshine doesn’t have nearly as much bite in terms of social satire as in many of his earlier plays, Adelaide company Galleon Theatre Group’s strong casting and magic touch with edgy comedy ensures an enjoyable production of the play.

Documentary film-maker and left-leaning Toby has career embarrassments to contend with and has escaped Sydney for Noosa with wife Ros. He hasn’t found satisfaction there, either, because the place has changed and now contains exactly the sort of people he detests.

In one of her routines, Lauren Bok mimes waking after a one-night-stand and not knowing who he is or where she is, and then dressing and escaping.  It’s not especially original, but she does it so well, it’s funny.  When she can’t find her knickers and her top, she turns to the audience for help.  A woman in the front row obligingly points to a plausible spot on the stage.  Ms Bok nods a hurried but grateful thanks, ‘finds’ knickers and top, then climbs out a ‘window’.  Her interaction with the audience throughout has a rela

A play about football needs a bit of an explanation for a theatre audience. David Williams makes it clear this is about “the game with the round ball that you play with your feet, sometimes referred to as ‘soccer’”. He tells us that Sydney FC supporters are called “smurfs” because they don sky blue and white; “Wanderland”, if you didn’t know, is the nickname for the home ground of their cross-city rivals: the Western Sydney Wanderers.

Geelong Repertory Theatre’s The Savages of Wirramai confronts its audience about sexual abuse.

While Rob Savage (Philip Besancon), the father of the Savage family, is proud of his courage and dutifulness in fighting in the Vietnam War, he fails in his duty to protect his daughter Cassie (Stacey Carmichael) from sexual abuse.