If anything will put you off working at a fast-food outlet, look no further than Red Stitch’s latest production. A world premiere, Fast Food is a comedy concerning a manager, assistant manager and three staff at a burger joint. Think McDonald’s or Hungry Jack’s. For the manager, Troy (Kevin Hofbauer), a vegetarian, it is all about…
– How to Please a Woman – Only in cinemas from 2 June 2022 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Madman Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Gina is not feeling fabulous. She has lost her job and feels stuck and frustrated in a passionless marriage. She has always…
If Shakespeare had the vision of Nostradamus, he may well have foreseen The Merry Wives of Windsor being set in a 1980s Australian backyard. Nonetheless, director Viktor Kalka has made the geographic transition and it is an interesting concept, to say the least. Inspired by “The Bard’s” intention to make the play contemporaneous, Kalka creates one…
A delightful, poignant, funny, uplifting play with music, The Heartbreak Choir charms its way into our hearts. It features a bunch of quintessential country town Aussies and a Zimbabwean-born immigrant. Barbara (Maude Davey) is the leader of the local choir, which has just had an acrimonious spilt, the reason for which is only revealed as the play…
So, okay, off the top here’s my recommendation – go along and see Not Today and fall in love with the zany personality that is the essence of talented performer Ally Morgan. She often talks fast – mighty fast. She is anxious and passionate about climate change, which she is keen to “fix” in just a…
I’m just gonna say it – The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is the greatest Nicolas Cage movie ever. That might be because it’s basically every Nicolas Cage movie ever, but still… the greatest! Writer-director Tom Gormican and co-writer Kevin Etten have created a film that celebrates everything that’s wonderful about Cage (at least his…
Egyptian-born Akmal emigrated to Australia with his family when he was 11 years of age. From the roof of his 20-storey apartment building in Cairo he could see the pyramids and the sphinx. Imagine what it was like then when his parents took him to see the Big Banana in Queensland. That is just one of the…
English comedian Ross Noble can’t help himself. He opens his mouth and out tumbles gag after gag … based on the simplest of things. The whole show looks and feels improvised … and the belly laughs are plentiful. He appears in front of eight inflatable, lit up Russian babushka dolls of varying sizes (for which he apologies…
If you are totally immersed in the mythology of James Bond and his adversaries, this show will delight and amuse you. At its core is vengeance and it plays up villainy. It combines a play in three acts with fun facts from the Bond pantheon – comparing the books and the films. The contention of the theatrical…
In the Indiana Jones wannabe, The Lost City, Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) is a writer struggling to find a suitable ending for her latest potboiler. She writes Mills and Boon-like fancies, featuring long-haired hero Lothario Dash. The model she’s used on 20 front covers is Alan (Channing Tatum), who is invariably asked to rip off…
