Reviews

Here is an American music theatre import, presented by the enterprising StageArt producers, with a cast of attractive, energetic and talented young people – with a few adults thrown in.  Set in a Catholic co-ed boarding school, with the senior students in their final year, the heart of the story is the troubled love affair between sensitive Peter (Adam Di Martino) and popular jock and girls’ heartthrob Jason (Finn Alexander).  It is the ‘love that dare not speak its name’ – at least as far as Jason is concerned.  This central plot strand of forbi

There is a lot to be said about the art of letter writing, especially between the incarcerated and lonely people on the outside.

To Lonely, With Love, created from real letters by the director and performer Jennifer Monk, with Lisa Dallinger and Perri Cummings, is having its second season after its Explorations run at La Mama in 2016.

This is a genuinely entertaining nostalgia-driven piece of drama meeting physical theatre.

“This is a world where men and birds fall from the sky, where young women are judged by the colour of their skin and where power can be ordained by a line of succession … where most of the characters genuinely want to create a better, fairer world than the one they were born into.” (Anthea Williams, Director)

The new short play, 21, written and directed by Mollie Earnshaw, is presented as part of Curtin University’s Sunday Night and Lunchtime Theatre series.

A very nicely written relationship drama, it tells of a young man Jimmy who contracts penile cancer. Despite the serious subject matter, there is lovely use of light and shade and beautifully drawn likeable characters. Mollie Earnshaw’s writing of dialogue is very clever, especially her use of rapid patter.