Reviews

The language was ripe! No topic off limits! And the coarseness of everyday life was front and foremost!

Michael Sutton has recreated the bar of yesteryear with everything (so I’m told) that made the hub of the suburbs such a necessary part of life.

The Barmaids: Kate McNair – Nancy and Tara Page – Val, are both Gold Coast Area Palm Award winners for their leading actress performances in past shows.

These two “beer pullers” are the entire cast; except for some “dumb” pub patrons and some unsuspecting audience members.

This show is a complete contrast to Tugun’s last raunchy offering: not a dancing pole in sight!

Set in a stately home for retired entertainers, the scene is the tastefully decorated sitting room.

The plot involves a variety of former performers and the Russian Mafia and has a large cast of seasoned actors, too numerous to list all the performers.

Lionel Bart’s popular musical returns to the stage at Spotlight with all the unsavory characters that we have grown to love or hate as the case maybe. This show has had a number of additional performances added to the originally planned season due to the demand for tickets.

Sharing the title role are Flynn Nowlan and Zander Engel-Bowe, two talented youngsters with great futures in the business. Also, there are two Artful Dodgers: Jake Binns and Luke Harrison and two Charley Bates: Kieran McGinlay (cover for Oliver) and Connor Otto (cover for the Artful Dodger).

Critics savaged Carmen when it premiered in Paris in 1875.  Bizet was dead from a heart attack three months later, at just 36, and so never had an inkling he’d written the world’s most popular opera.

Discarding its traditional setting in Seville, director John Bell turns to Havana, with Michael Scott-Mitchell’s evocatively detailed classic square, streaked with decay and rusting roller doors. It shifts between carousing public square to smuggler’s warehouse, under Trent Suidgeest’s dramatic lighting.