Reviews

Yes, Prime Minister is ideal fare for community theatre – familiar characters, farcical situations, and plenty of laughs. Britain is in crisis with spiraling debt, crippling unemployment, and a fragile coalition government. Help is at hand if the Prime Minister will sign a trillion pound bail-out deal with the oil rich Kumranistan, a country that nobody can find on the map.

One of the common complaints in theatre is that for young people, aged between 15 and mid-twenties, there are few roles and opportunities available, written, to be cast in, or to be able to work in. Since 2017, Deadset Theatre Company has courageously made addressing this issue their mandate, successfully mounting productions that address current and relatable issues for that age group.

Post Covid days are here and La Mama Courthouse is back on boards. Cabaretica is a quarterly, one-off late-night show, curated by Susan Bamford Caleo and Isabel Knight. It is a viable platform for cabaret artists to experiment and play with new ideas, but more importantly it gives up-and-coming talent a venue to gain confidence and skills.

There’s a lot to love about The Curators’ production of the Lauren Gunderson play, The Revolutionists.

Set in Paris,1793, during the reign of terror in the French revolution, four feisty women face the sociological changes of their era. The characters are based on real women, however their meeting in this play is purely a work of fiction. Published in 2018, the dialogue is infused with modern twists and humour. Comedy is weaponised to defend serious political issues: women’s rights, democracy, freedom of speech, and equality.