Life Performance Reviews
Reviewed November 2025 for Theatre Matters.
“This wall of disparity between us, Frankie, we gotta break it down. So the only space left between us is just us.”
Wrapped up in a complex, circular-collision, complicated post-coital conversation between Frankie and Johnny this is the crux of their ‘relationship’.
Reviewed April 2025 for Theatre Matters.
For the 35th time, international and local comedy superstars gathered their wits, wrote and presented their arguments, did some light opposite team roasting along the way – all with the aim of winning the Melbourne International Comedy Festival annual debate, with the topic for this year being “That social media is good, actually”.
Reviewed April 2025 for Theatre Matters.
I’ve been writing for Theatre Matters (previously Theatrepeople) for nearly 10 years and have written close to 50 reviews in that time.
This week something happened that has never happened before. Two reviewers went and reviewed the same show.
Because the other reviewer submitted their review before me – by a matter of minutes I’m told – they rightly couldn’t publish mine.
But I *know* some people are waiting for it and I like writing and sharing my thoughts, so I have permission to post my review here.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be writing a Melbourne International Comedy Festival review show about Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but here we are.
Continue reading “Buffy Revamped (MICF)”Reviewed February 2025 for Theatre Matters.
“And the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical goes to……Avenue Q”
Twenty years ago, a musical with only three human characters but eleven puppets toppled the hot favourite, a show you may have heard of recently…Wicked, to win the biggest theatre award there is (as well as Best Book and Best Score).
Reviewed August 2024 for Theatre Matters.
Scene – a house in New England. Guests gather for a surprise birthday party. There are decorations. There is cake. There are drinks. There is a MURDER.
Reviewed August 2024 for Theatre Matters.
Stop me if you’ve heard it…Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.
Whilst it may be a simple rhyme many of us learned in school to remember the six wives of Henry VIII, it’s also the story backbone of the global phenomenon SIX the Musical.
Reviewed May 2024 for Theatre Matters.
“Madame is the greatest star of them all.”
Said of Norma Desmond, the same applies to Sarah Brightman.
Reviewed March 2024 for Theatre Matters.
“Who runs the world? GIRLS”
There is nothing more so evident in 2024 than the current surge of girl power we are seeing globally. From Beyonce to Barbie to Taylor Swift to the incredible Australian female sporting achievements, the world is bathed and pink…and green.
Reviewed March 2024 for Theatre Matters.
Chicago. The 1920s. The Jazz Age. The dawn of the “celebrity criminal” – where the crime (and justice) itself is overshadowed by glitz, glamour and a good story.
B at The Bows 