Death defying stunts, incredible strength, agility, flexibility, stamina and thrills aplenty are what modern circus is all about. Cirque Adrenaline has all that along with audience participation, courtesy of a cheeky clown. There is plenty to satisfy those who perhaps haven’t seen as many shows of this variety as I have. Littlies in particular will,…
I have been in The Gaslight Anthem’s corner since the beginning, so the last few records from the band have been somewhat tough to absorb as the group battles the desire to be popular with still trying to remain hip. From the group that gave us all the angst on their SideOneDummy albums they have…
A beaded collar, found scrunched at the bottom of a box of old junk. What’s its story? That’s what Maggie, a modern-day auctioneer in London, wonders when she finds the collar, cleans it, and recognises that once, long ago, it was someone’s precious thing. Drawing on her own love of finding precious things, author Kelly Doust delivers…
From the hand bill for this production at the New Theatre, of an adaption, by Richard Roxburgh and Justin Monjo, of Tim Winton’s 1986 novel, That Eye, The Sky: In a small Western Australian town 13 year-old Ort Flack is coming to terms with terrible changes in his world. His father lies paralysed in a…
Set in Frankfurt 13 years after the end of World War II and the Holocaust, Labyrinth of Lies is a picture of Germany – and the Nazis in particular – being pulled kicking and screaming to accountability for what was allowed to happen. Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling) has recently been appointed Public Prosecutor and, like…
A French, Belgian and Canadian co-production that was nominated for a French César award, April and the Extraordinary World starts out with a great deal of promise. The year is 1941 and all the world’s leading scientists are seemingly disappearing off the face of the earth and no-one can explain how or why and the…
A bitingly funny script – full of wit, irreverence and reverence – is the backbone of this comedic and dramatic play about cultural identity, which returns to the Alex Theatre for a short season. A beloved grandfather has died and a treasured family heirloom with religious and cultural significance is up for grabs. But who…
Talk about playing mind games with words. A decade after MTC staged this Tony Award winning musical comedy, the Vic Theatre Company has brought it back to tickle our funny bones again. It is, indeed, hilarious, more than a touch silly and really fun, but not without pathos … for you see the contestants in…
Recently we saw Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur’s Everest, a dramatic and at times thrilling recreation of the tragedy that struck a group of climbers on Mount Everest in 1996. That film was enough to put you off climbing mountains for ever! Now Australian director Jennifer Peedom (Miracle On Everest, and she worked as high altitude…
What if The Breakfast Club characters had to work on a yearbook project together instead of just talking? Reading Sarah Ayoub’s latest book, The Yearbook Committee, I was instantly reminded of the aforementioned movie (a favourite of mine) because of the way it dealt with timeless issues facing young people. Here’s the blurb: Five teenagers. Five lives. One…
