Reviews

Annie Get Your Gun is packed full of hit songs, and demands a sense of ensemble, great stylistic verve, and sure musicality from its cast and creatives.

DVS's production of the show managed to deliver on these key elements, particularly in the casting of the principal roles of Annie Oakley (a fiery Sophia Bubner) and Frank Butler (a charming Wade Robinson).  

There are lots of good reasons to head to Bondi Beach this winter. Although the famous lifeguards are mainly off duty, behind them, in the soon to be spruced up Bondi Pavilion, is a smorgasbord of entertainment on offer – including many award winning acts from fringe and comedy festivals interstate.

Solaris is another remarkable feat of staging from Director, and Malthouse’s Artistic Director, Matthew Lutton.  On an immaculate white set (Hyemi Shin) with walls that magically open and close to furnish cold impassive environments on a space station, three living scientists try to understand the strange, lurking, human-like, presences that have beset their environment.  These disturbances are attributed to extraterrestrial interactions from the planet Solaris and unnervingly they have been, mysteriously, growing in efficacy.  

It’s a shame the arts funding is the way it is in this country, leaving emerging artists and companies needing to self-fund tours, because Bearfoot’s touring production of their acclaimed 2018 production I Hope It’s Not Raining In London deserves a longer run, in more locations, to more patrons.