Reviews

The Addams Family is a well written show, with great characters, great songs, and a great message. It never fails to please. In this Senior Performance Ensemble production by the Musical Theatre Crew, every aspect is perfectly realised.

“Sex, suicide, mental health, not typically the thematic headliners of a youth theatre production.”  So states director, Georgia Broomhall, in her excellent directors notes for Pelican Productions terrific production of Heathers: The Musical by Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy. Yes – and no. Yes, because its subject matter is provocative and confronting; No – because these themes still matter to contemporary youth.

This may be the darkest most horrifying musical ever written but, in the week we have been hearing endlessly about pet eating from a US Presidential candidate, it may also currently be the funniest.

This polished, energetic and technically brilliant production of the Victorian Opera about a wronged and vengeful barber and a lonely chancer pie shop proprietor literally grabs you by the throat and mesmerises you.

Trent Dalton may have reached rock star status in his hometown. The excitement and enthusiasm in the crowd for opening night of Love Stories was electric. The audience wasn’t just at fever pitch because Brisbane is ever so proud of our local boy made good. We had at least seven more paragraphs worth of valid reasons to be so effervescent.