Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ll be honest, I didn’t know much about Crystal Pite or Simon McBurney before this, but Figures in Extinction at Aviva Studios was something else. It wasn’t just a dance show—it was an experience, the kind that settles in your chest and stays with you long after you’ve left.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI went to see One Punch expecting a story that would really hit home, and it certainly did. The play is only an hour long, but it tells the tale of a night out gone wrong—a night that changes everything.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCaryl Churchill has been a playwright of our times for as long as she has been writing, consistently holding up a mirror to society in mesmerising and often terrifying ways.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Divine Comedy, performed by Sam Buttery alongside two other fantastic actors, is exactly that—a funny, chaotic, and deeply personal tribute to Harris Glenn Milstead, better known as Divine.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStefanie Reynolds creates a chemistry between herself and the audience that makes for a rewarding theatre experience.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBad Science is an ambitious and chaotic satire that takes a sharp jab at the political class’s increasing influence over the health system. After we passed multiple health crises and arguably, a mental health one, some will wonder what are the machinations behind such a government.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat is love to a Goddess? is a work in progress solo-show based on the Greek mythical story of Madea and Jason performed and written by Maz Hedgehog.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCarrie Hope Fletcher shines in energetic revival of 1961 musical. I’ll admit that I was largely unfamiliar with Fein, Park and Hanmer’s musical, which follows the misadventures of gun-slinging Calamity Jane in Deadwood City. So I was…
Reading Time: 2 minutes"Mariupol Drama", a verbatim play by Oleksandr Gavrosh, presents an unflinching portrayal of the harrowing experiences of those who sought refuge in the Mariupol theatre during the tragic bombing.
Reading Time: 2 minutesShahid Iqbal Khan’s play explores devotion to life and religion, leaving an engaging impression which wants a deeper character study.