Reviews

Fleur Murphy unflinchingly examines the threads of violence in our society with delicacy, insight and humour. The central character (Louisa Mignone) has a toddler who isn’t sleeping well and a husband who has become emotionally and practically absent.

The play starts when the fence is torn down by their new neighbour leaving the houses and their occupants exposed to each other. There are unsettling events suggestive of family violence in the house next door and making choices about how to respond is challenging.

Composer, arranger and conductor Nicholas Buc was the perfect choice to lead the QSO in last night's performance of a fascinating and eclectic selection of the music of famous film score composers. With his impressive experience in the industry and passion and knowledge of the subject and the inclusion of scores from the 1930's up to the 1980's, it was indeed a night of mixed emotions not only because of the music itself but also the reminiscences associated with those memorable movies buried deep in our psyche.

Every now and again a new opera version is performed that changes your views about the text, music and how is to be performed. Simon McBurney’s new version of Die Zauberflöte is just such a production.

I have been involved in theatre for over fifty years and have never seen a production of this Mozart classic that is so well thought out and entertaining. It is truly opera on steroids.

Go see this! The Hayes Theatre Company production of Murder for Two is clever, witty, elegant, sophisticated, laugh-out-loud brilliant! My face hurt from laughing too much. 

The musical both lampoons and pays homage to many tropes of stage musicals and whodunits.

From Agatha Christie to Abbot and Costello to old-school book musicals, this genre mash-up gives us a display of virtuoso talent from the too-talented-for-their-own-good Gabbi Bolt and Maverick Newman.