Reviews

Big Love is a big piece of Epic Theatre, performed by WAAPA Third Year Bachelor of Performing Arts Performance Making Students, and crewed and designed predominantly by WAAPA Production and Design Students.

As director Cameron Mitchell points out in his notes for The World Goes Round, Kander and Ebb’s songs are a gift for Triple Threat performers. This production of some of their best songs is a wonderful showcase for WAAPA’s Third Year Musical Theatre Students, and this young, talented cast embrace the opportunity.

Playing in front of a strong 8-piece live band, under the Musical Direction of Craig Dalton, vocal performances, without exception are strong and impressive, with choreography, from director Cameron Mitchell, vibrant and superbly executed.

Queensland Conservatorium’s latest production of Tartuffe features the third year acting students in an energetic and delightful performance that has the audience in stitches from start to finish. The cast, with a palpable enthusiasm, attacks Molière's classic with gusto. Writer Justin Fleming has infused the adaptation of the material with modern vernacular and a vibrant sense of humour, all while staying true to the essence of the original.

The Ros Packer Theatre was originally used by merchants as a Bond Store in the wool trade, and writer Geoffrey Sykes has chosen the cosy industrial looking sandstone room known as the Richard Wherrett Studio for his historical revue.

It is a good space for the piece, much of which is set at the trial and jail cell of runaway convict George Clarke in the 1830s. He was deemed to be a major threat to public safety of the colony because he befriended and lived with nine Aboriginal tribes.