by Oliver Ross | Mar 14, 2021 | Performances, Reviews
Now in their the company’s sixth year, Jennifer Sarah Dean’s The Winter’s Tale adds layers to a rarely performed play, with music melding drama and comedy. The Winter’s Tale follows the fallout after the paranoid King Leontes of Sicilia accuses his...
by Oliver Ross | Mar 9, 2019 | Performances, Reviews
Coming into their fourth year, Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s fast-paced, lively and vibrant musical takes to Shakespeare are consistently hilarious and unique. But their takes on the more obscure plays, buried in the back of collected editions and rarely...
by Oliver Ross | Mar 8, 2019 | Reviews
Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s unique, lively approach to Shakespeare continues in their summer season, working through mistaken identity and playful plots in Twelfth Night. Following shipwrecked and separated twins Viola and Sebastian, they trade roles as...
by Oliver Ross | Apr 10, 2018 | Performances, Reviews
In Bustco’s world premiere of Dwayne Yancey’s play, two young noble women receive letters from their boyfriends that they’ve been locked in the Tower of London. They set off – Rose, eagerly, and Lily, not so eagerly – to rescue them, disguising themselves...
by Oliver Ross | Apr 6, 2018 | Performances, Reviews
Elwood Social Club Production’s quick-witted production, The Ides of March, is full of quick changes and rapidly paced, constant laughs. When Shakespeare’s trip back in time to research the death of Julius Caesar for his upcoming play gets him imprisoned for the...
by Oliver Ross | Mar 30, 2018 | Performances, Reviews
Touring as one of A-List Entertainment international acts, Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare brings five classically trained actors to the stage, with one of them heavily drunk prior to the performance – and, at the audience’s request, increasingly so during it. The result...
