Reviews

FreeFall was an experience that I never realised I wanted to experience again... Until tonight! Theatre makers Kitan Petkovski of Bullet Heart Club and Milly Copper from Wielding Theatre have combined forces and created a performance reeking with blurred moments and dreamscapes from the drunken night out that haunts your clubbing days of time gone by (well, for me anyway)!

A brilliantly cast ensemble of performers, who are also credited as writers, work symbiotically on the small stage, faced head on by a row of seats either side of the performance space.

BK Opera continues to push the boundaries when it comes to opera. This production featured a new director, with Henry Shaw taking the reins, but the innovation was still there.

Offenbach wrote many operettas, and the director has taken three, utilising the music, but replacing the original story line with his own with English dialogue. The music was sung in the original French with surtitles on a TV screen, which was part of the set.

It was bedlam!

SPIN is an astounding educational dance experience devised, directed and performed by the contemporary deaf dance artist Anna Seymour and her deaf team creatives.

Seymour’s dance residencies took her across the Americas and through Europe but her time spent at the International Deaf Dance Festival in San Francisco galvanized her experiences, to devise a ‘similar’ show with her fellow creatives in Melbourne, who are committed to raising deafness and music connection awareness.

The title tells you what this 2015 one-act play is about.  We’ve got John, Paul, George and Ringo in a room.  We don’t know where – or even why - but it seems they might be on tour – although a single bottle of Scotch in a dressing room seems meagre for such huge stars.  We don’t know when, but the dialogue refers to ‘films’ – plural – so that’s after A Hard Day’s Night and Help!  It’s probably 1965 and – although he’s not named – it’s after they’ve met