This French film from 2007 is despite its subject a celebration of life and living. Adapted from a memoir of the same name, the reality behind the drama gives it a haunting quality that stays with you for some time. The hero of the movie, a journalist, wakes to find himself with locked-in syndrome. This [...]

This funny dark drama shows the joy and horror of drug abuse, framed through the wit and theatrical whimsy of this young and energetic UK theatre troupe. Act One, seduction. In this beautifully theatrical proposition the play asks what happens to a group of young hip disjointed adults when Heroin – in shape of a [...]

Ostensibly for children this adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fable is expertly crafted by the people at Theatre Simple. Taking multifarious roles the five actors weave this tale of love and courage, taking us on a young girl’s journey as she attempts to save her close friend from the snow queen. It is a [...]

The Rap Guide to Evolution is exactly that, a comedy show on evolution rapped in rhyme. And a fun time can by all, if you’ll only open your mind. Honestly, I really don’t know a lot about Rap. The whole thing comes off a bit alien. But that’s the joy of this show. Baba’s wit [...]

Tucked away in a freight container at the back of the Garden, this alluring show packs some hidden punches, or perhaps not so hidden if you read the show blurb. I hadn’t. All I had was a recommendation and some odd mumblings about an aged care nurse. Indeed Yuri Wells the title character in this [...]

For the last 20 minutes, while I waited for my bus, I watched quietly as every single bloke who drove by turned their head and looked over the cute 15ish year old girl with sunglasses who sat beside me. She was clearly aware and hiding her discomfort. Now there was a lot of traffic, so [...]

Part lecture, part performance, part event this monologue on communication is both an ironic meta-narrative on theatre and intimacy, and an off beat farce of our own mundanity. The man in the light is a stage actor, he says as much. Our willingness to believe this and everything else he says just because he is [...]

Part physical theatre part meditation on mortality, this unique production contrasts the actors own mortality with the themes of death and loss found in Hamlet. Using a countdown we understand that the end of the world is approaching and willing or otherwise this set of six physical theatre performers find themselves playing Hamlet. It certainly [...]

Dr Brown is a very naughty clown. First to dispel any confusion – when I say clown I’m not talking red nose and floppy ear kind that you see at kids parties, I’m talking stage clown, a performance craft dedicated to making us laugh through the sheer absurdity of the world they see. Whether it [...]

Part lecture, part forum, partc storytelling, part theatre – Best We Forget is an unusual show just right for the fringe, where original theatrical concepts can get an airing. As best as I can tell, it seems to be a process drama, that being one where through various rehearsal techniques the participants bring their real [...]