REVIEW: Blue Room Summer Nights Week 4
Moving On, Inc. – The Blue Room, 18 Feb 2015 Writer/director Mikala Westall makes a very promising debut at the helm with her new play Moving On Inc. She’s gathered a trio of fine actors who handle her naturalistic text with ease. … Continue reading REVIEW: Blue Room Summer Nights Week 4
REVIEW: The Last Great Hunt Fringe Binge! Yoshi’s Castle/BRUCE/Monroe & Associates
The Last Great Hunt have been busy this festival season, with its members participating in no less than five Fringe World events in 2015: Elephents, Yoshi’s Castle, FAG/STAG, BRUCE, and Monroe & Associates. Two of the five, Elephents and BRUCE, … Continue reading REVIEW: The Last Great Hunt Fringe Binge! Yoshi’s Castle/BRUCE/Monroe & Associates
REVIEW: Blue Room Summer Nights Week 3
Pale Face Cold Blood – PICA, 12 Feb 2015 A young Iranian woman, Zara, finds herself translating for refugees on Manus Island and ends up witnessing an shockingly gruesome act of violence that she can’t manage to shake. After … Continue reading REVIEW: Blue Room Summer Nights Week 3
REVIEW: Blue Room Summer Nights Week 2: Part 2
FAG/STAG – PICA, 5 Feb 2015 Tinder, Grindr, clubs, bars…sex is just a swipe away, and connection with strangers is both quicker and more treacherous than ever, but where is the intimacy? Where is the companionship? How do you … Continue reading REVIEW: Blue Room Summer Nights Week 2: Part 2
REVIEW: Blue Room Summer Nights Week 2: Part 1
Fake it Til You Make It – PICA, 3 Feb 2015 Bryony Kimmings and her fiance Tim Grayburn are opening up about male depression. Grayburn has suffered from chronic depression all his life, and after the death of Robin … Continue reading REVIEW: Blue Room Summer Nights Week 2: Part 1
NEWS: The Lowdown on PIAF 2015 – theatre, opera and dance
As I sit here in the afterglow of PIAF’s 2015 launch, the festival program is cracked open next to me, emitting a pungent hot-off-the-press smell. I haven’t even yet scoured its semi-glossed leaves to check the fine print of its … Continue reading NEWS: The Lowdown on PIAF 2015 – theatre, opera and dance
REVIEW: Home Open: The Renovation (An Evening of Spring) | The Cutting Room Floor
I recently checked back in with The Cutting Room Floor’s quarterly performance event, Home Open, to see what they’ve been up to, to see if anything had changed, and to have a peek at Tyler Jacob Jones’s latest short piece. Home … Continue reading REVIEW: Home Open: The Renovation (An Evening of Spring) | The Cutting Room Floor
REVIEW: Punk Rock | WAYTCo
Subiaco Arts Centre Wednesday 15 October 2014 WAYTCo has been under the artistic direction of Renato Fabretti for only a few short months, but if their latest production of Simon Stephens’s Punk Rock is anything to go by, the company … Continue reading REVIEW: Punk Rock | WAYTCo
REVIEW: Welcome to Slaughter | Blue Room Theatre
The Blue Room Theatre Tuesday, October 14, 2014 It’s Halloween month, so to put us in the mood for the scariest time of year, Michelle Robin Anderson and her team of co-devisers and creatives have put on a spooky little … Continue reading REVIEW: Welcome to Slaughter | Blue Room Theatre
INTERVIEW: Daisy Sanders and Jo Pollitt | Status Room at The Blue Room
There’s always room at The Blue Room for dance theatre; dancers who are hungry for more than just being seen in the dance community have a way to crossover to a wider audience by getting their work into a Blue Room season. … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Daisy Sanders and Jo Pollitt | Status Room at The Blue Room
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