Theatre 2007 Archives - Page 4 of 14 - One4Review
Playing Burton
August 8, 2007 | adminPerhaps this is strange to say but where as I admire and enjoy watching Richard Burton perform in film, I almost idolise Guy Masterson. I admit to being a little surprised to discover the close blood relationship between these … Read More
Something Fishy
August 8, 2007 | adminSomething Fishy is a comedy thriller which is played with enormous gusto by Liz Hague as Daisy and Kate Mooney as Petunia. The play opens with the two girls, upper class and naïve, arriving by chance in the coastal … Read More
Waiting for Groucho
August 8, 2007 | adminThis performance of ‘Waiting for Groucho’ didn’t quite succeed for me. Flawed though it was, there is potential from this company. The story is set in the late 1950’s when the Marx Brothers are no longer the dominant force … Read More
After Electra
August 8, 2007 | adminWhile I’d be the first to admit that I am no expert on Eugene O’Neill or his writing, hence did not know the original piece Mourning becomes Electra, I must say that this adaptation left me totally confused. From … Read More
Breaker Morant
August 8, 2007 | adminHarry ‘Breaker’ Morant, born in England but raised in Aus went on to become an Australian Legend. This bush poet and soldier was court martialled for the murder of a German missionary during the Boer War. On stage we … Read More
Curse of the Werewolf
August 8, 2007 | adminThere’s been a murder at Gargoyle House. Lord Algernon has died in mysterious circumstances; was it murder or something altogether more sinister? Join a cast of oddballs as they struggle to find the murderer and make it through the … Read More
Eleanor Tiernan and Niamh Tiernan: – Help!
August 8, 2007 | adminThis play written by the Tiernan clan, past Perrier Winner Tommy, stand up comedian Eleanor and her cousin, actress Niamh is the story of comedian Eleanor, who is not nearly as funny as she thinks she is as she … Read More
I am my own Wife
August 8, 2007 | adminKevin Loreque gives a masterly performance in this one man play. There are essentially two characters, the writer Doug Wright and German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. The two characters, although born in different continents and in different eras, shared … Read More
Miss Julie
August 8, 2007 | adminThe three handed play Miss Julie written by August Strindberg has been adapted by Alan Litsey bringing it up to date and also relocated in the American deep south and is performed with zest and no mean talent by … Read More
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