Reviews

“I’m not that same person who left through that door” – Nora

What if Nora came back? What would people say? And what could possibly draw her back to the house, scene of so much said and unsaid in A Doll’s House by Ibsen? This play brings back characters we thought we knew, and challenges what we imagined happened after Nora left.

Caroline Stacey’s direction has led to a fine production, with high values shown in the acting, staging, lighting and sound. All elements work together to create a jewel of a play.

I always think it is a really good thing when you have been to the theatre that when you leave you need to discuss it and you keep discussing what you have seen all the way home and then you think about it when you are lying in bed.

A Night at the Theatre is a series of comic one act plays by David Ives, the leading American writer of Absurdist theatre. Theatre of the Absurd usually does not get much of an airing, so it is both interesting and worthwhile that STARC Productions presents these short and technically difficult plays.

Ghenoa Gela is funny, friendly and fierce in My Urrwai. The show intersperses storytelling with contemporary and traditional dance, comedy, poetry and song. It’s a powerfully moving exploration of the impacts of colonialism on first nations people.

A serial killer’s murder of seven young women haunts his family.  David Boden, the killer (Andrew Blackman), is incarcerated for life.  His daughter, would-be stand-up comic Shelby (Jessica Stanley), and stay-at-home son Ben (James Cerché) are frightened by and obsessed with their father: are they tainted?  Is he in their blood?  Shelby can reel off the names of the victims.  Boden’s now alcoholic wife Linda (Vivienne Powell) can’t help loving the man Boden was – or she thought he was – before…  But now, suddenly, Bod