David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a bleak, brutally funny exploration of the ‘dirty joke’ that is the ‘godforsaken business’ of modern love and relationships.
During a performance of Elektra, an actress falls silent and subsequently refuses to speak. The nurse assigned to her recovery takes her to a remote seaside cottage to rest and recuperate. But what should be a safe haven of convalescence quickly transforms into a space of terror and isolation.
Hansard Monologues is a verbatim play, written by Katie Pollock and Paul Daley, which is the story of how our country makes itself, over and over again. It’s about us.
review - Submitted by Ash Cottrell on Thursday, 13th Jun 2013
TP Rating:
3
Venue:
Red Stitch Theatre
It’s fun sometimes to do away with the debauchery of Friday night drinks and opt rather for a seemingly more sophisticated evening at the theatre. I find myself feeling significantly more highbrow holding a ticket to an opening night while mingling with Melbourne’s theatregoing crowd, than trawling for bars. The mad rush to get there on time though reminds me that I am indeed not highbrow and rather more likely disorganised and unpredictable.
Thursday, 27th June 2013 - Saturday, 3rd August 2013
Celebrated actor David Wenham stars opposite Anita Hegh in Arthur Miller’s masterpiece The Crucible. Written at the height of 1950s McCarthyism, this timeless classic directed by MTC’s Associate Artistic Director, Sam Strong, opens on Thursday 27 June at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner.