Reviews

Shakespeare’s plays can be produced in many different settings, often far from their traditional productions. This Atherton Performing Arts Junior Theatre version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is no exception.

Atherton’s Julius Caesar is performed on a well-designed, dystopian set by the actors in futuristic costumes carrying guns of various descriptions. The play is accompanied by jangling music and, surprisingly, an old Doris Day song.

Director Belle Hansen certainly knows how to put on a show.  Here, performances sparkle, the choreography – performed by an excellent cast – is excellent, and she fills. the wide but simple set with so much invention and activity that at times you don’t know where to look.  SPARK is a sort of fable-dream-nightmare about how the search for love is entwined with – or disastrously compromised by – internet technology.

The youngest comedian at FringeWorld, eighteen-year-old Hardy Croucher’s show plays a “hard to sell” afternoon slot at The Laugh Resort at the Shoe, in Yagan Square. A young man from Albany, he is well presented and likeable.

Nurse Georgie Carroll: Survival of the Fittest - A Work in Progress is a very funny show, with former nurse Georgie Carroll telling stories of nursing, raising children and approaching 50.

A laid-back relaxed and really likeable performer, Georgie works her crowd well, with easy banter and friendly interaction, in a gorgeous Northern English accent.

Recently giving up her nursing licence for full-time comedy, Georgie jokes that this allows her to say more, and her hospital stories are especially funny.