Review: Laurinda (Melbourne Theatre Company)
Mean Girls meets Freaky Friday in this adaptation of Alice Pung’s young-adult novel.
Patricia Maunder has been an arts journalist since the 1990s, interviewing the likes of Sir Andrew Davis and Renée Fleming, and contributing to publications such as The Age and Opera (UK). Based in Melbourne, she’s passionate about opera, theatre and anything Baroque.
Mean Girls meets Freaky Friday in this adaptation of Alice Pung’s young-adult novel.
Both intriguing and alienating, this experimental performance interrogates the self in the digital age.
Despite the text’s inherent silliness, this national touring production is low on laughs.
This adaptation of Melina Marchetta's classic Italian-Australian coming-of-age novel is still finding its feet.
Simon Phillips and Tim Finn return with a bittersweet boutique musical about longing and regret.
Henry VIII’s wives fight back in this fast, flashy and fun pop concert-inspired show.
Christie Whelan Browne plays eight diverse characters in this funny and insightful cabaret.
This masterful, heartwarming one-hander, performed by Jonny Hawkins, celebrates an elderly woman’s life and wisdom.
The Australian premiere production nurtures this novella-like play’s intimacy and intrigue.
An enjoyable confection of songs and visual treats with a story tweaked for the 21st century.
Great Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto shines in this concert performance of a Faustian obscurity by Arrigo Boito.
This true story about artists fleeing the Holocaust is sincere to a fault.
Significantly shorter than the original two-part production, this new take is just as magical.