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08.07.2022 Michelle Law makes her Sydney Theatre Company debut with an irreverently outrageous and frenetically farcical new body-swap comedy, Top Coat. Arisa Yura, Amber McMahon and John Batchelor in Sydney Theatre Company’s Top Coat, 2022. Photo by Daniel Boud © The play follows Chinese-Australian nail-technician Winnie (Kime Tsukakoshi), who is…

30.06.2022 “You’ll do your business, and she, if she’s worthy of you, will do hers; but it’s your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.” Eliza Scott, Tuuli Narkle and Nikita Waldron in Sydney Theatre Company’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 2022. Photo: Prudence Upton © For centuries…

16.06.2022 Boxing and corsets are not two things you’d expect to be put together, yet this is exactly what Theatre Travels Productions does, and does well in The Sweet Science of Bruising. The Australian premiere of the British play written by Joy Wilkinson, explores the lure of boxing for four…

29.06.2022 Nicole Pingon’s Moon Rabbit Rising is theatre like I’ve never seen it before. Moon Rabbit Rising, 2022. Photo by Clare Hawley. Inspired by the legend of 后羿 (Hou Yi), a mythological Chinese archer, and his wife 嫦娥 (Chang’e), the Chinese goddess of the Moon, Moon Rabbit Rising is a…

14.06.2022 The Ensemble Theatre, based in Kirribilli right beside the beautiful waters of Sydney Harbour, has been producing professional theatre since 1958, and has earned its reputation for quality in doing do. The Theatre’s dedication to presenting ‘the best of international plays, well-loved classics and new Australian works’ is on…

04.06.2022 Ghosting the Party contains depictions of suicide and drug use, mentions of mental illness and self harm. Ghosting the Party is a dark comedy piece, written by Melissa Bubnic and directed by Andrea James for Griffin Theatre Company’s 2022 season. Jillian O’Dowd and Belinda Giblin in Ghosting the Party,…