Reviews

As presented by Darlington Theatre Players, Edward Albee’s modern theatrical classicWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a tight, emotionally charged incarnation of this game-changer Tony Award winning play.

Middle aged couple Martha and George have a deteriorating relationship and play emotional games. They draw a visiting couple, new colleague Nick and his wife Honey, into their emotional vortex,

Annie tells the story of an 11-year-old girl living in a run-down orphanage in 1933, whose optimism allows her to believe she will one day see her parents again and that each tomorrow will be a better day. Annie is eventually chosen to spend Christmas week with billionaire Oliver Warbucks (played by Nathaniel Currie) and she quickly melts the hearts of the stern businessman and his staff. The story then takes a deceitful turn when con artists devise a plan to separate Annie and Warbucks forever.

All Monarchists and anyone interested in British history will enjoy this telling of the abdication of King Edward VIII to marry his true love, American divorcee Mrs Wallace Simpson. This warts and all production is historically acurate and visually appealing, with strong performances all round.

Talam, as playwright Rashma N Kalsie tells us in a program note, ‘is a term used in Indian music… the base on which the notes of musical composition and poetry rest… the rhythmic cycle of a musical competition… [Here] talam means the rhythm of Melbourne.’  That is, there’s a rhythm to the city that you ‘get’ or you don’t – and if you don’t, life can be alienated, lonely and maybe poor and hungry too.  The play tells the stories of three young people from the sub-continent – from Delhi, fro