Reviews

One of the most frequently performed plays in the United States, Darlington Theatre Players’ production of She Kills Monsters appears to be a Western Australian premiere. Cleverly directed and nicely performed, this was a great way to kick off 2025 at Marloo.

‘Ordinary’ Agnes Evans delves into the world of Dungeons and Dragons, in an attempt to understand her late sister. A lovely blend of reality and fantasy She Kills Monsters, was a joy for Role Players, but very accessible for everyone.

Two plays by Australia’s Andrew Bovell were produced in Madrid before he wrote this third to premiere in Spain. Remarkably, it’s about the legacy of Spain’s brutal civil war and the decades of silence that followed, the Pact of Forgetting, under which the victor, Nationalist dictator General Franco went on to murder a further 150,000 Republicans.

Storyteller and photographer William Yang is 80 and this presentation (‘show’ seems the wrong word) covers his complex, complicated and marvellously varied life from his childhood in rural Queensland all the way to the present.  He has done many presentations – beginning long ago with ‘slide shows’ in people’s living rooms.  This might be the peak.  His verbal narrative is accompanied by photographs – not quite all his own – that are an essential and inherent part of the telling.  As well, there is Elena Kats-Chernin’

Kirli Saunders is a proud Gunai woman who, in her own words “rarely stays in her lane”. Rather, as a multi-disciplinary artist, she uses words, music and movement to express her strong feelings about country and mob … and the politics and policies and that force her out of “her lane”.

In Yandha Djanbay she explains those feelings in a performance that is open and challenging but is infused with gentle humour, wry irony and wise commentary.