by Michael Coghlan | Apr 6, 2024 | Reviews, Theatre
Holden St Theatres Wed 4 April 2024 A conversation with someone who sexually abused you when you were 12 years old is never going to be easy. Blackbird is a tense exploration of a past relationship between 40 year old Ray, and a 12 year old girl, Una. Una is now 27...
by FringeGuest1 | Mar 15, 2024 | Interviews, Theatre, Theatre & Physical Theatre
SOLUS Productions is staging a production of BLACKBIRD by David Harrower, starring Marc Clement & Monica Lapka, produced by Marc Clement, and directed by Tony Knight, at Holden Street Theatres. A distressing, nuanced two-hander about the dangerous influence and...
by Michael Coghlan | May 2, 2022 | Reviews, Theatre
[THEATRE/Thriller ~ SA] Bakehouse Theatre, Fri 29 Apr, 2022. A Streetcar Named Desire had a huge impact when first performed in the late 1940s due to its no-holds barred revelation of sexual mores of the time and American society’s treatment of women. The sexual...
by Clayton Werner | Feb 15, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy, Reviews, Theatre
Maxim’s Wine Bar, Tue 14 Feb. The debut of Matt Byrne’s newest work, My Kitchen Fools marks 20 years of Matt Byrne Media doing theatre at Maxim’s Wine Bar. No doubt the perfect accompanying drink can be found at the bar! My Kitchen Fools, is essentially theatre, but...
by Michael Coghlan | Apr 7, 2016 | Reviews, Theatre
Space Theatre, Wed 6 Apr. Reviews of Harold Pinter’s Old Times range from “one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years” to “a pretentious bore”. For me this production at the Space Theatre lands unsurprisingly somewhere in the middle! It’s quite a bit more upbeat...
