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Australian theatre lovers would understandably get excited if a play’s title has the bonus of “written and directed by Joanna Murray-Smith” attached to it, so you go into this production with hopes high. Commissioned by Queensland Theatre, the world premiere production at QPAC’s cosy Cremorne Theatre hits most of the right notes and definitely doesn’t
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Richard Curtis can no doubt add Yesterday to his impressive list of screenplays that have touched a huge nerve with audiences. No matter how irritating some might find the saccharine sentimentality of Love, Actually or the upper-class indulgences in Four Weddings and a Funeral, the movies are watched over and over, year in, year out. In Yesterday, (co-credited
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The Brits are renowned for serving up small but emotionally satisfying films, and Wild Rose sits comfortably in the category. There’s an anti-heroine at its centre who, despite her many flaws, you can’t help rooting for. You also want to tell her to wake up to herself and stop being so frustratingly self-destructive. The woman
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When a theatre company takes on one of the seminal plays of the 20th century, there’s a lot of expectation. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, about the death of the American dream after the post-World War II optimism, has been performed many times with acting luminaries such as Dustin Hoffman and Philip Seymour Hoffman
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It’s 1962 in the good ol’ U.S. of A. and here we’ve got a road trip movie with a white man chauffeuring a black man around the country. Of course we know that racism is going to play a major role in this modest film that’s received numerous accolades and is up for Academy Awards,
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There was a great disturbance in the force when it was announced there was going to be a new Mary Poppins movie. Messing with such a beloved classic that’s stood the test of time and entertained youngsters and their parents since its 1964 release was always going to be risky. The big question was, how
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The extra half star is a generous gesture aimed at those who haven’t read the fourth instalment of the Millennium books, written by David Lagercrantz after the untimely demise of original author, Stieg Larsson. Anyone who has read the books, and particularly The Girl in the Spider’s Web, will spend much of the time caught
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David Williamson’s latest play is quite a departure for the enduring scribe who’s so often given us comedies about social mores and searing visions of contemporary power struggles. Not to worry – there are still the trademark Williamson barbs and observations about misguided and deluded humans. You just have to take them with a dose
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