Review: Big Mouth Strikes Again (Salty Brine & Sydney Festival)
"It lives!" A vividly entertaining mashup of The Smiths and Mary Shelley lights up the Sydney Festival's cabaret room.
"It lives!" A vividly entertaining mashup of The Smiths and Mary Shelley lights up the Sydney Festival's cabaret room.
Ambition and autobiography collide powerfully at times, but indulgence blunts the work's emotional and political impact.
Adelaide’s contemporary circus troupe Gravity & Other Myths offers a glimpse of what it takes to achieve perfection in an awe-inspiring hour of power.
A darkly funny cult classic blooms with bite, blood and brilliant performances.
A frenzied, carefully crafted farce with an innovative set and slick cast champion the Cluedo legacy.
A tribute to Dharug culture is touching but uneven.
Hundreds surrender to the bliss of all-embracing dance, music and togetherness.
A recent little indie theatre hit about the hateful online “manosphere” returns, bigger but not better as the new, longer script dilutes this play’s impact.
This classy, respectful tribute to Stephen Sondheim is seamlessly staged and brilliantly performed by a top-notch cast.
A generalisation-busting provocation of the most joyous kind – kinetic, embracing and celebratory.
A spontaneous conversation between two artists results in a unique, shared experience.
Musically ravishing scenes of idyllic pastoral life, nymphs, fairies, love and courtly wit open the Mornington-Peninsula-based festival in fine style.
Performed outdoors, this comic pastiche of several plays by The Bard becomes increasingly frenetic, farcical and unfunny.