Reviews

KADS present their second Sean Guy play of the year - Under the Table, winner of the 2022 Northern Territory Literacy Award for Theatre. An interesting blend of Agatha Christie style mystery, absurdism, and Australian humour, it was very well received by its opening night audience.

Playing on a split stage, one side interrogation room and the other ostensibly murder victim Edward Hush’s dining room, we meet two rather unusual detectives and a collection of suspects whose stories do not seem to agree.

Nocturnal is a brand-new contemporary dance work, choreographed and presented by Brooke Leeder and Dancers. This very dark piece, obviously set at night, is dark in costuming, set and lighting - an intriguing piece with elements of secrecy, nightmares, and self-reflection.

In 1827, in a little town called Polstead in Suffolk in the UK, a girl called Maria Marten disappeared. It was not until a year later that her body was discovered under the floorboards of a barn. She had been shot, strangled and hit with a spade by William Corder, the man she loved. The same man who had abused her psychologically in a nasty form of coercive control. The “Murder in the Red Barn”, Corder’s trial and very public execution are part of Suffolk history.

Gone with the Wind is an iconic American story with the 1000-page novel by Margaret Mitchell earning a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. Exploring politics, romance and contentious issues including human rights, it sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. The nearly four-hour movie adaptation in 1939 was also a great success, boasting one of cinemas most often quoted lines, ‘Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn’, which is cleverly built into the script of Moonlight and Magnolias, currently being performed by The Rep.