Reviews

Taxithi explores many migrant stories - rich reflections of lives and memories combined with traditional songs remain forever. Of parents who sailed across the oceans; flew over continents to come to a new land, who dreamt of prosperity, love, and a new life.

Set against the slow, meticulous, and selective creation of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), The Dictionary of Lost Words traces the story of Esme Nicoll (Brenna Harding) – a fictitious character - from a precocious child of four in 1886 to a thirty-three-year-old mature woman in 1915 – plus an epilogue set in 1889.  The play is the story of Esme’s education – literary and moral - change and growth from a cossetted, insulated, timid, curious girl to a complex and courageous young woman who becomes a lexicographer, but finds experience in the wider w

Queensland Theatre (QT) started its 2024 season with a play that introduced the term ‘gaslighting’ into many conversations about relationships in the last decade. Written in the 1930s by troubled playwright and novelist, Patrick Hamilton, the action is set at the very tail end of the Victorian era in a claustrophobic and gloomy London terrace house.

As the audience waits in the foyer, two bald-headed men in suits are coming down the stairs, measuring with a tape as they go. Whether it’s the gap between pillars or the distance between two patrons, one always calls out the same number. The futility of measuring without meaning.