Reviews

This delightful show is most appropriate for children who are eight years and over and quite a delight for adults.  However children younger than eight find hilarity throughout due to the incorporated comic repetition.

The show opens well before metaphorical curtain with the very personable and charming Jarod Rawiri chatting to the audience in the foyer, and getting up to some wacky ginks in the auditorium.  By Rawiri, as a witty white-faced clown, children are engaged and encouraged, to respond naturally and spontaneously. 

Cell, Block Tango was a clever premise for a cabaret show. Based on the song from Chicago, which features a number of women in a prison cell block awaiting trial for killing their partners, this had the performers blocking people from their cell phone, after a bad first date.

Grown-up circus makes a sexy return to the heart of Sydney in Limbo Unhinged, as cabaret styled circus again leads off proceedings at the Opera House Studio for the year.

This year’s offering is tantalisingly sensual, in contrast to the more overtly sexual offerings of recent years, eschewing nudity and potty-mouthed comic hosts for the non-stop circus talent of this splendid muilti-skilled international troupe, with the mostly physical comedy embedded in the acts.

The Curious Incident tells its curious story from the point of view of Christopher Boone (Joshua Jenkins), an autistic teenager, a maths genius, living in Swindon in England with his Dad, Ed (David Michaels), who’s told him that his mother, Judy, is dead.  One night, Christopher discovers their neighbour’s dog dead on her front lawn, impaled on a garden fork.  (The chalk line around the corpse – the classic murder scene – remains as a reminder to the end of the play.)  His determination to find the dog’s killer kick starts the plot.