Reviews

Oscar Wilde was sentenced for indecency to hard labour in Reading Gaol within months of his most famous comedy opening in 1895.  It’s the dark shadow behind The Importance of Being Earnest, with its hilarious mockery of the British upper classes and their willing ignorance and hypocrisy. 

Wilde’s queer eye also turns the comic screw on how trapped they are in their own strait-jacked (heterosexual) conventions of love and marriage.  Their revenge of sort soon followed.

WAAPA’s Graduating Acting Students are an exceptionally strong cohort - especially the women - and this production of Wise Children is a great choice to showcase their talents, as well as the strong skills of WAAPA’s Production and Design Students.

This hilarious absurdist comedy is a well-polished production that has lost none of its humour or meaning in the fifty plus years since it was written.

Another short day in the Emerald City, but this time with more flying monkeys, new colourful LED lighting and a joke about TikTok, which wasn’t invented when the last professional season took place almost a decade ago.

Wicked is back with a few small updates and not a moment too soon for the producers. In a difficult time for theatre, Wicked is a rolled gold hit (or perhaps more appropriately labelled a rolled greenback hit) which sparkles from the inclusion of bright new leads and the deft hands of experienced actors.