Reviews

In Street, writer and director Liviu Monsted presents to the audience a grim picture of the plight of young people living on the street. It is not so much a story of why or how they ended up homeless, nor does it present a neat solution to their situation, rather it raises our consciousness and asks us to look more closely at those living on the streets.

Climate change and toxic waste are hot topics with a massive world-wide protest movement on the rise to save the earth. Circus Oz, on the awareness campaign, have created Aurora, set in the cold regions where ice melts and oil spillage are destroying natural wild life habitats.

Nunsense is musical comedy in its earliest incarnation; a revue combining disparate elements and which presumes significant audience involvement. The plot is flimsy: five nuns, survivors of a food poisoning incident, mount a show to raise funds for the remaining members of their religious community, still held in the convent freezer. The show is held together by the characters. Each nun has had hidden talent – singing, ventriloquism, dancing, comedy – but also a back story which makes the show more engaging than it might otherwise have been.

Performing at the Sydney Opera House won’t be the biggest concert of the year for Kate Miller-Heidke. That was - as you probably know - at the Eurovision Song Contest (which, according to organisers, was watched by 182 million people). Her new national tour takes the name of the song she sang for Australia, “Zero Gravity”. But that high-note of pop is just one of the many strings in Miller-Heidke’s metaphoric bow. This is one of the country’s most talented singers and composers at her best.