Reviews

From go to whoa this wonderful ‘grownups’ puppet show is a rich rewarding delight.  Funny and even ‘laugh out loud’ to start with, Blind is a marvelous and often tantalizingly surprising journey.  Master puppeteer and artist Duda Paiva in communion with, through breathing life and voice into, his exquisite delicate puppets - delights his audience.

Paiva is a charismatic, consummate, relaxed and spontaneous performer who engages with disarming sincerity. 

This year Brisbane Arts Theatre is celebrating its 80th year of production, a milestone in local theatre, and what better way to pop the fizz than a production of Australia’s favourite home-grown musical The Boy From Oz.

The bio-musical about the life of songwriter Peter Allen, who rose from small-town pub entertainer to headlining at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, is the stuff of legend and especially when his life also connected with two of America’s superstar legends, Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli.

I love impressions: it's always a great source of amusement for me to take off famous personalities, even better if it's an improved version of the original artist, as I've seen before, but when you see a performer in a solo act who can do the 'verbal and the vocal', and with such aplomb, all one can do is beam with a little more than just admiration.

And this is pretty much what the audience did.

It’s back…the musical that caught us all off guard last year and has us gasping for breath. On a rainy Melbourne night we piled into the quaint St Kilda National theatre and managed to dry out in just a few minutes.