Reviews

The Importance of Being Earnest is a gorgeously written comedy, and despite being written 128 years ago, is still one of the wittiest plays being performed. Under the direction of Tim Riessen, who is having a very busy year, Roxy Lane takes us back to the late Victorian era and provides lots of laughs with this “trivial comedy for serious people”.

Road trips through the Australian Outback aren’t the likeliest of settings for a play, yet with Sweet Road, The Rep has created an interesting production that carries you way outside the city.

It’s the intersection of at least five stories of human interaction (or dealing with the lack of it), each character experiencing their own grief, growth and opportunity, each of them on a journey both literal and metaphorical.

This is a chilling story that has very ethereal elements and casts man against nature in a very dramatic way. This original opera is based on true events about three lighthouse keepers who disappeared under mysterious circumstances from a remote Scottish location. The dark tone of the story is well suited to the genre and a great way to portray the larger-than-life characters who inhabit this eerie episode. 

George and Martha have been in an embittered marriage for more than twenty years.  Not content to tear strips off one another — Martha with outright aggression and George with infuriating passive aggression — they like to involve unsuspecting others in their dysfunctional relationship, in a little game called ‘Get the Guests’.