By Patricia Cornelius. Presented and co-created by Dee & Cornelius & Wilks. Directed by Susie Dee. fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. 24 February – 7 March 2021.
This is an impeccable production with a clear and cohesive approach across a variety of elements in the play. Runt has a lyrical and poetic style that is also infused with confronting everyday language. This makes the text hard-hitting and compelling. The play is a combination of musing, laments, hard truths and uncomfortable accounts of what it is like to eke out an existence from the margins of society.
By Ellen Grimshaw. Theatre Works, St Kilda. Feb 24 – Mar 6, 2021
We’re Probably Really Really Happy Right Now, a quirky new upbeat theatrical performance written by VCA Master of Writing for Performance graduate Ellen Grimshaw, and directed by Sarah Vickery, opens the 2021 Theatre Works season.
From the book by Martin McKenna, and adapted by Amy Conroy. Slingsby and State Theatre Company SA. Adelaide Festival. Thomas Edmonds Opera Studio. Feb 25 – Mar 14, 2021
‘What’s wrong with you?’ screams almost everyone in Marty’s life, but there’s little wrong with this wonderful piece of theatre from South Australia’s Slingsby and State Theatre Company.
Conceived and performed by Tracy Crisp. Adelaide Fringe Festival 2021, Main Stage at Bakehouse, Feb 22 – Mar 6, 2021
It is midnight. Well doesn’t every Mum only have that time available to make a cake? Not just any cake, however; this is the final Women’s Weekly Birthday Cake, lovingly made by Tracy Crisp for her youngest son’s 18th birthday. As she stirs, she turns the pages of her memories back to the start of her journey as a mother. The fourth in a quartet of plays, this 50 minute gem is a warm, loving and beautifully drawn story.
Amelia Ryan and Libby O’Donovan. Adelaide Fringe Festival. The Queens. Feb 25 - Mar 7, 2021
Amelia Ryan and Libby O’Donovan are a powerhouse combination, oozing energy and an abundance of talent, as they effortlessly command the stage with their undeniable chemistry taking the audience on a journey through a musical landscape stretching as far back as the 1960s.
By Christopher Hampton. Adelaide Festival. Dunstan Playhouse. Feb 19 – 14 Mar, 2021
Written by British playwright Christopher Hampton, and directed by Neil Armfield, A German Life reminds us both how shocking, and ordinary, war and its privations become, seen through the eyes of those who are aggrieved, and those who see themselves as ordinary citizens, doing whatever it takes to survive.
Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan. Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks. Hayes Theatre Co. Directed by Alexander Berlage. Feb 18 – Mar 27, 2021
Life must be getting back to normal when you are allowed to squeeze into the 111 seat Hayes Theatre, which is back open for the first time in eleven months, albeit at 75% capacity.
The venue sprang back with a delicious quantity of concentrated talent in front of a small but privileged audience.
