Review: Isolde & Tristan (Sport for Jove & Old Fitzroy Theatre)
Playwright Esther Vilar spins the chivalric romance of Tristan and Isolde into a provocative, playful drama of colonisation and resistance.
Playwright Esther Vilar spins the chivalric romance of Tristan and Isolde into a provocative, playful drama of colonisation and resistance.
An expertly calibrated staging of Samuel D. Hunter's play that hooks you from the get-go and gently reels you in.
Birthed as a COVID-era film project, Damien Ryan's Venus & Adonis truly finds its feet on the stage.
Ahead of his staging of Venus & Adonis, director Damien Ryan explores the influence of a remarkable talent on William Shakespeare.
The stage and screen actor and union activist died after a long illness.
Without the First Folio, we wouldn't have Shakespeare as we know him, Freud's Oedipus complex and Marx's Theory of Capitalism.
Written when Shakespeare was on a roll, As You Like It is the play that keeps on giving. And director Damien Ryan should know.
Jack shall have Jack and nought shall go ill in this fizzy, funny staging of Shakespeare’s oft-performed comedy.
Billed as a film about a play about a poem, Sport for Jove's Venus & Adonis is a luscious, visual feast and a remarkable achievement.
Sport for Jove introduced itself to metropolitan Sydney audiences with As You Like It back in 2009, and this production retains the infectious charm of the first.
With the year drawing to a close, we look back over the theatre that wowed our critics in 2019.
A sovereign adaptation by William Zappa that shows us just how much war impoverishes the human spirit.
Sport for Jove celebrates its tenth anniversary with 100 years of Shakespeare’s history plays in a sweeping, epic production.