Reviews

Victorian adventurer and raconteur extraordinaire, Bennett Cooper Sullivan, has returned from his latest astonishing imbroglio and now feels compelled to recount to us his arduous journeys – Cairo, Edinburgh, London - his near unbelievable hair-breadth escapes, and his many brushes with vice and death – all to keep us on the edge of our seats and breathless with excitement! 

Marvelous at Riverside Theatre is a spectacular showcase that would make even Iron Man (or woman) tip a helmet. This supercharged show sends audiences flying higher than Captain Marvel and is wrapped in a bundle of aerials, live vocals, dance, stunts, and a risqué edge.

Samwise Holmes (creator, director & writer) opens his tale with a cheeky hint of what’s to come. It’s naughty, loud, and packs a punch as it turns the other cheek. 

This play covers a relationship, born at a loud Sydney party, to its death a few years later in trauma and grief. Who’s to blame? How could the two participants have done things differently? Two Hearts follows the exciting formation and bitter ending of the kind of relationship we could all do without, but which will probably be heading our way.

Ensemble Q started their 2025 QPAC Series with an enticing program for septet that was engaging, enlightening and highly enjoyable. The Concert Hall reverse seating allows the audience to view the performers and their instruments at close range, as befitting the chamber music mode. The Grand Septet program was unique – a trip across Europe, featuring music from Hungary, Czechia and Sweden – and a world premiere of new music from Ensemble Q’s composer in residence for 2025, Melody Eötvös.