by Oliver Ross | Dec 8, 2016 | Performances, Reviews
Jennifer Sarah Dean’s The Tempest is a fast-paced, energetic blend of contemporary humour and the renaissance that the Melbourne Shakespeare Company has already made their trademark, coming to life in the beautiful backdrop of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens. The play...
by Oliver Ross | Nov 23, 2016 | Reviews, Screenings
Featuring utterly spectacular design and building on this year’s powerful graduating RSC ensemble, Gregory Doran tells the bleak and tragic tale of King Lear on a scale that is both grand and deep against a backdrop of mania and uncertainty. The play following...
by Oliver Ross | Oct 14, 2016 | Performances, Reviews
Melbourne University Shakespeare Company promised a Twelfth Night like none you’d experienced before, and its delivery is terrifying. Oscar Shaw’s immersive production twists the familiar comedy into a high-stakes thriller of madness and deceit that engulfs the...
by Oliver Ross | Oct 12, 2016 | Performances, Reviews
Monash Shakespeare Company takes the trend of bringing 400 year old plays to a contemporary era in the most literal way possible, with hysterical performances across the board in their rendition of the dueling plotters that is Twelfth Night. Rather than being...
by Oliver Ross | Sep 30, 2016 | Performances, Reviews
Following their production of Coriolanus, Burning House continues to delve into a world of constant warfare and bloodshed with one of history’s oldest tragedies, Ajax. Set near the end of the Trojan War, the play follows Ajax’s hopeless rage when recognition...
