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07.04.2022 The Chapel, the Fire, and the Dead Cat at NHSPA. Photo: Clare Hawley © What happens when eleven teenagers creep onto a church ground at night? The Chapel, the Fire and the Dead Cat (winner of the 2019 Senior ATYP Foundation Commission). Madelaine Nunn’s wonderful and ghostly play explores…

01.05.2022 The Lies We Were Told 2022. Photo: Clare Hawley © There was exciting energy in the Shopfront Arts foyer on a Friday evening for Shopfront Arts’ smash hit ‘The Lies We Were Told.’ As you check in, you are asked to write down your own lie, either one you…

30.03.22 Olivia McLeod in PASH, 2022. Photo: Evangeline Clough Good © PASH is the brainchild of its lead actress Olivia McLeod in this one-woman debut at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Housed in Motley Bauhaus, McLeod’s show plays with both the intimacy of the small performance space and the cinematic…

04.04.22 Noël Coward allows complex wordplay to be intermingled with an engaging plot. The interesting dynamics between characters allowed for an engaging piece of theatre that was worth being revisited today. Blithe Spirit at Sydney Theatre Company. Photo by Prudence Upton. Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward centres around a socialite…

26.03.22 Photo: STC/Rene Vaile After a racist commercial for a skin whitening cream has been leaked online, the Singaporean office of rapidly growing start-up, Clearday Cosmetics, is plunged into a spiral of chaos as they attempt to strategise to solve this PR nightmare. White Pearl, by Anchuli Felicia King and…