Disrupting Stages
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Theatre reviews of some of the things I see (often published elsewhere)
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"Cowbois" at the Seymour Centre is already setting hearts (and yes, the underpants) on fire.
Every ticket is $40. Bring your pals, your nanna, your favourite troublemaker.
Every ticket is $40. Bring your pals, your nanna, your favourite troublemaker.
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"Cowbois" at the Seymour Centre is already setting hearts (and yes, the underpants) on fire.
Every ticket is $40. Bring your pals, your nanna, your favourite troublemaker.
Every ticket is $40. Bring your pals, your nanna, your favourite troublemaker.
Paul Gilchrist's "Atlantis" doesn’t give us answers so much as a gentle provocation: maybe the truth isn’t a fixed point at all, but a lens we’re free to adjust. The play lingers with a soft afterglow, urging us to choose our stories with care and courage.
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Atlantis - KXT
First performed at KXT in 2016, Paul Gilchrist’s Atlantis resurfaces with its philosophical pulse intact, reminding us that theatre can be both a thinking space and a playground. Billed as a micro-nua...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Paul Gilchrist's "Atlantis" doesn’t give us answers so much as a gentle provocation: maybe the truth isn’t a fixed point at all, but a lens we’re free to adjust. The play lingers with a soft afterglow, urging us to choose our stories with care and courage.
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"The Edit" stands out for its polish, intelligence, & provocation. It dissects the ethics of entertainment with empathy and rigour — reminding us that while viewers can choose what to watch, the participants inside the frame often have far less control.
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The Edit - 25A Belvoir
The Edit25A BelvoirWatching The Edit brought to mind Lauren Berlant’s notion of “cruel optimism” — the idea that something you desire can become the very thing that prevents your flourishing. It’s an ...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"The Edit" stands out for its polish, intelligence, & provocation. It dissects the ethics of entertainment with empathy and rigour — reminding us that while viewers can choose what to watch, the participants inside the frame often have far less control.
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Clever, playful and quietly provocative, "Everything I Know About This Water Bottle" finds poetry in the debris of human progress.
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Everything I Know About This Water Bottle - Old Fitz
Everything I Know About This Water BottleOld FitzChildren born in Australia today inherit a world of extraordinary access—electricity, healthcare, and the internet. Yet they also inherit species extin...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Clever, playful and quietly provocative, "Everything I Know About This Water Bottle" finds poetry in the debris of human progress.
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COWBOIS - by Charlie Josephine is a western with everything you’d expect, but our lone cowboy is a gender outlaw who fights the patriarchy and inspires a queer revolution. Tickets $40 - www.seymourcentre.com/event/cowbois/
Cowbois | 2025 Seymour Season
Experience a rollicking queer Western like nothing you've seen before with Cowbois by Charlie Josephine. Book now.
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September 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
COWBOIS - by Charlie Josephine is a western with everything you’d expect, but our lone cowboy is a gender outlaw who fights the patriarchy and inspires a queer revolution. Tickets $40 - www.seymourcentre.com/event/cowbois/
A pleasure to encounter ambitious, thoughtful and intelligent creativity in the theatre. ... a chance to increase your knowledge of theatrical repertoire and the work of young artists on the rise. This is a story vividly portrayed, confidently rendered.
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Life is a Dream - Fervour
Life is a Dream25A“Life is a Dream” is the best-known play from playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1634), a Spanish Golden Age writer. It blurs the lines between dreams and reality, destiny and fr...
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September 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A pleasure to encounter ambitious, thoughtful and intelligent creativity in the theatre. ... a chance to increase your knowledge of theatrical repertoire and the work of young artists on the rise. This is a story vividly portrayed, confidently rendered.
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Want to go beyond your limits?
This raw energy, sweat, teamwork, we need YOU! Play alongside 7 Danish performers for a cathartic, physical spectacle. HIMHERANDIT Productions present MASS EFFECT in Sydney. Running 17-20 Sept at New Theatre. Email [email protected]
This raw energy, sweat, teamwork, we need YOU! Play alongside 7 Danish performers for a cathartic, physical spectacle. HIMHERANDIT Productions present MASS EFFECT in Sydney. Running 17-20 Sept at New Theatre. Email [email protected]
September 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Want to go beyond your limits?
This raw energy, sweat, teamwork, we need YOU! Play alongside 7 Danish performers for a cathartic, physical spectacle. HIMHERANDIT Productions present MASS EFFECT in Sydney. Running 17-20 Sept at New Theatre. Email [email protected]
This raw energy, sweat, teamwork, we need YOU! Play alongside 7 Danish performers for a cathartic, physical spectacle. HIMHERANDIT Productions present MASS EFFECT in Sydney. Running 17-20 Sept at New Theatre. Email [email protected]
“Trace of Belief” choreographed by Hsieh Yi-Chun at Edinburgh Fringe, is a subtle, mesmerising performance that incorporates ballet, tai-chi, salsa, bhangra and kathak in a dreamlike melange.
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Trace of Belief - Edinbrugh Fringe 2025
Taiwan Season: Trace of BeliefChun DanceAssembly Dance Base“Trace of Belief” choreographed by Hsieh Yi-Chun, is a subtle, mesmerising performance that incorporates ballet, tai-chi, salsa, bhangra and ...
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August 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“Trace of Belief” choreographed by Hsieh Yi-Chun at Edinburgh Fringe, is a subtle, mesmerising performance that incorporates ballet, tai-chi, salsa, bhangra and kathak in a dreamlike melange.
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A tense psychological thriller where patriarchy, sensuality, desire, and the dangerous pursuit of truth collide. The utter simplicity of four actors on a large stage with a powerful story and the refined aesthetic create a frightening portrait of humanity.
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Tom at the Farm - Edinburgh Fringe 2025
Tom at the FarmCena Brazil International at Edinburgh Fringe 2025In Portuguese with English surtitles “Tom at the Farm” travels to Edinburgh Fringe from Brazil. It is an adaptation of a work that has...
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August 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A tense psychological thriller where patriarchy, sensuality, desire, and the dangerous pursuit of truth collide. The utter simplicity of four actors on a large stage with a powerful story and the refined aesthetic create a frightening portrait of humanity.
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“Slugs” is glorious madness. It’s ambitious too. And I loved the DIY aesthetic. And it's politics. But you will laugh and probably scream (I did), you will reel from comedy to dark darkness. You will be pleased you stayed up way too late to see this one!
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Slugs - Edinburgh Fringe 2025
Slugs – Edinburgh Fringe 2025Red Lecture TheatreSummerhall “Slugs” created by Canadians Sam Kruger and S E Grummett is billed as a “techno colour acid trip where you’ll meet puppet Joni Mitchell, a tw...
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August 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Slugs” is glorious madness. It’s ambitious too. And I loved the DIY aesthetic. And it's politics. But you will laugh and probably scream (I did), you will reel from comedy to dark darkness. You will be pleased you stayed up way too late to see this one!
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“The Bush” is ultimately a David and Goliath story. The women in this story weren’t showy women beating drums but concerned citizens who had a vision for a future and gathered momentum through their passion, strategy and inspiration. www.disruptingstages.com/post/the-bus...
The Bush - Edinburgh Fringe 2025
The Bush – Edinburgh Fringe 2025Alice Mary CooperPleasance Courtyard “The Bush” is an affectionate, informative and funny solo show about the “Battlers of Kelly’s Bush”, a small group of Australian wo...
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August 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“The Bush” is ultimately a David and Goliath story. The women in this story weren’t showy women beating drums but concerned citizens who had a vision for a future and gathered momentum through their passion, strategy and inspiration. www.disruptingstages.com/post/the-bus...
“Consumed” - Karis Kelly’s play for four women. Set amid a family reunion in Northern Ireland it leads to a not unexpected explosion of repressed emotion, truths and trauma.
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Consumed - Edinburgh Fringe 2025
Consumed – Edinburgh Fringe 2026Paines Plough, Traverse Theatre “Consumed” is quite the Edinburgh Fringe Festival darling. Karis Kelly’s play for four women won the Women’s prize for playwrighting in...
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August 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“Consumed” - Karis Kelly’s play for four women. Set amid a family reunion in Northern Ireland it leads to a not unexpected explosion of repressed emotion, truths and trauma.
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Jade Franks is quite the splash in Edinburgh this year. Her solo show, “Eat the Rich” tells of her experiences as a working-class Liverpool gal thrust into the world of class privilege when she is accepted as a student onto Cambridge University.
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Eat the Rich - Edinburgh Fringe 2025
Eat the Rich (but maybe not me mates x)Edinburgh Fringe 2023PleasanceJade Franks is quite the splash in Edinburgh this year. Her solo show, “Eat the Rich” tells of her experiences as a working-class ...
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August 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Jade Franks is quite the splash in Edinburgh this year. Her solo show, “Eat the Rich” tells of her experiences as a working-class Liverpool gal thrust into the world of class privilege when she is accepted as a student onto Cambridge University.
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“Dancehall Blues” has a strong dance theatre vibe. The performers are captivating. The evolving “story” is gripping. It has all shades from nightmare to dream. It is the present, the future and a fallen Eden. I left feeling hopeful. Do not miss this show.
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Dancehall Blues - Edinburgh Fringe 2025
Dancehall BluesCoisCéim Assembly Dance BaseIreland's dance theatre vanguards, CoisCéim present David Bolger's “Dancehall Blues” as part of Culture Ireland’s Edinburgh Showcase. Nominated for Best Prod...
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August 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“Dancehall Blues” has a strong dance theatre vibe. The performers are captivating. The evolving “story” is gripping. It has all shades from nightmare to dream. It is the present, the future and a fallen Eden. I left feeling hopeful. Do not miss this show.
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Theatre is forever dying in our age of over saturated stimulation – apparently – "Thanks for Being There" is a wee thanks for turning up in person to re kindle the communal experience that remembers and reimagines who we are.
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Thanks for Being Here - Edinburgh Fringe 2025
Thanks for Being HereOntroerend GoedZoo SouthsideBelgian theatre-performance-group Ontroerend Goed are a staple for the theatre go-er in Edinburgh every year the company present work. Always intellige...
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August 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Theatre is forever dying in our age of over saturated stimulation – apparently – "Thanks for Being There" is a wee thanks for turning up in person to re kindle the communal experience that remembers and reimagines who we are.
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The struggle for power, both personal and political, is at the heart of “Coriolanus”. . Shakespeare, as usual, is on the money when it comes to humanity’s struggle with itself.
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Coriolanus - Bell SHakespeare
CoriolanusBell Shakepspeare Roman general Coriolanus makes his name defeating an enemy army and defending Rome. The Senate nominates him as consul, but he cannot win the people's vote, so he is banish...
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June 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The struggle for power, both personal and political, is at the heart of “Coriolanus”. . Shakespeare, as usual, is on the money when it comes to humanity’s struggle with itself.
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“The Spare Room’ a stage adaptation by Director Eamon Flack who also directs. g A cast headed by Judy Davis is sure to draw the crowds – even though its bleak content isn’t particularly fun. Cancer. Death. And those who care for us at the end.
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The Spare Room - Belvoir
The Spare RoomBelvoir“The Spare Room’ by Australian novelist Helen Garner is given a stage adaptation by Belvoir Artistic Director Eamon Flack who also directs. Blessed with an amazing cast headed by...
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June 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
“The Spare Room’ a stage adaptation by Director Eamon Flack who also directs. g A cast headed by Judy Davis is sure to draw the crowds – even though its bleak content isn’t particularly fun. Cancer. Death. And those who care for us at the end.
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“Law and Life: Transgender Stories” - new conversations, of support and kindness. Theatre doesn’t have to be flash or clever to connect... as Allanah says, “…need our allies. We need our families, our friends, and our lovers, and our partners.”
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Law and Life: Transgender Stories - VIVID
Law and Life: Transgender StoriesRebel TheatrePresented as part of the Vivid Ideas program by the community enterprise, Inner City Legal Centre (ICLC), “Law and Life” is a group of five trans storytel...
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June 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“Law and Life: Transgender Stories” - new conversations, of support and kindness. Theatre doesn’t have to be flash or clever to connect... as Allanah says, “…need our allies. We need our families, our friends, and our lovers, and our partners.”
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“The Anarchy” won’t be for everyone but I love how Doppelgangster sweep into town with their own form of anarchic theatre, wake up the theatrical sleepers of Sydney. For the feeling you get the morning after I recommend!
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The Anarchy - KXT
The Anarchy (1138-53)KXTWe are told “Theatrical Sabboteurs’ Doppelganster bring their latest, miraculous work about living in dark times, violence, and disorder. In this part shocking anti comedy, par...
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May 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
“The Anarchy” won’t be for everyone but I love how Doppelgangster sweep into town with their own form of anarchic theatre, wake up the theatrical sleepers of Sydney. For the feeling you get the morning after I recommend!
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."..Kate Gaul’s beautifully balanced production ... The script is illuminating, elliptical, and through two mesmerising performances from Noel Hodda (Mal) and Lucy Miller (Mairead), it casts light, welcome and otherwise, on the dark recesses of a long marriage." Stage Noise
May 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
."..Kate Gaul’s beautifully balanced production ... The script is illuminating, elliptical, and through two mesmerising performances from Noel Hodda (Mal) and Lucy Miller (Mairead), it casts light, welcome and otherwise, on the dark recesses of a long marriage." Stage Noise
"Yes Yes Yes" aimed at youth, but this is about something a that is important to us all as humans (consent). I recommend this work to anyone who is curious about the content or curious to see solid theatre making that matters.
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Yes Yes Yes - Seymour Centre
Yes Yes YesSeymour Centre“Yes Yes Yes” is a signature work by Aotearoa New Zealand practitioners Eleanor Bishop and Karin McCracken, supporting social change through the promotion of consent culture a...
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May 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"Yes Yes Yes" aimed at youth, but this is about something a that is important to us all as humans (consent). I recommend this work to anyone who is curious about the content or curious to see solid theatre making that matters.
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Until May 31 The Loading Dock
May 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Until May 31 The Loading Dock
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Until May 31 - The Loading Dock
May 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Until May 31 - The Loading Dock
Director Alex Berlage can’t change the raw material but, looking around the audience on the afternoon I attended, the team found something for girls, grannies, gay men & guys who get it. Go for performances, the colour and those retro sunny Spanish vibes.
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Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown - Hayes Theatre
Women on the Edge of a Nervous BreakdownHayes Theatre Gazpacho, anyone? A musical adaptation of Pedro Almodovar’s unique (cult) 1988 film of the same name. “Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown” ...
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May 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Director Alex Berlage can’t change the raw material but, looking around the audience on the afternoon I attended, the team found something for girls, grannies, gay men & guys who get it. Go for performances, the colour and those retro sunny Spanish vibes.
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