Reviews

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

Part Q&A, part lecture, part visceral dance, part theatrical; we end at the beginning.

Jack Ferver explores the notion between fictive and the real – is life purely a form of deconstruction? Why do we make personas to live by?  How do these in essence become truer than our real selves?

The audience and ‘selected guests’ become participants in Ferver's enigmatic performance.

The Play That Goes Wrong is silly, ridiculous fun. A cross between Noises Off and Fawlty Towers, it trades on familiar theatrical tropes where an amateur theatre company put on a play and everything that could go wrong does – missed lines, forgotten props, doors that won’t open, dead bodies who move, pratfalls, and the set falling down in spectacular fashion, all in the name of a laugh.

The Geelong Lyric Theatre Society (GLTS) production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat rockets along. Fifty minutes in, the lights announce intermission – catching me by surprise.

For those who aren’t up to date with their Bible stories or their Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joseph retells the story of the son of Jacob from Genesis 37- 50.

In 1967, Webber and Tim Rice wrote Joseph for a school’s end-of-term concert, accounting for the shortness of the musical and the way the whole story is told through song.