Various Characters Review
Šime Knežević’s 2025 play Various Characters approaches with care and confusion the condition of Australian multiculturalism. A coming-of-age tale of multiple teenagers living in socially turbulent mid-2000s Sydney, the play never fully realises its focal point, nor answers the many questions it raises before the curtains close.
Notes on Improvisation
“The improviser, that loafing, cocky, impulsive thing, who shamelessly indulges in one of the purest modes of creative play — of total absorption in the present. How magical! How disgusting.”
Mixing RED with black: the death of the art movement is the only given
A tortured artist. A naive assistant. The child always kills the father. Pop art will kill abstract expressionism. It’s the 50s.
Bodies That Matter Backstage
Backstage at Deathwatch, I felt a rearticulation beginning in the vocabularies of everyone there.
SUDS' 'Blithe Spirit' review: "a lovely little farce"
‘Blithe Spirit’ is a 3-act performance that acts as an absolute testament to what student theatre can be.
You couldn’t look back if you tried: SUDS 'Eurydice' Review
A sensory aigís, expect an odyssey of emotion, talent and stagecraft.
Friendship, nostalgia, and isolation: SUDS 'Play On' Review
Play On, written and directed by Gemma Hudson, is an ambitious and exciting cross of And Then There Were None with Heathers.
Amadeus dreams and Bathurst St realities: the alchemy behind Everynight
Mr. Squiggle’s SUDS ascendancy
Review: SUDS Major Everynight — An all-inclusive package holiday to your best nightmares
Imaginative theatre has a new set of puppet masters
Review: SUDS' The Popular Mechanicals — Anything but robotic!
There’s nothing more Popular than laughter.
R.I.P. the midnight spook show
These more theatrical elements bridged old and new storytelling techniques, and also provided a reason for people to go to the cinema.
Review: SUDS’ Machinal — Modern, disturbing, and absurdly funny
SUDS’ penultimate slot delivers biting social commentary and razor-sharp performances.
Review: Mother May We — No one will know the violence it took to become this gentle
Ree welcomes her audience into the emotional space of her performance, allowing you to first share her pain and safely explore those feelings in yourself, then share her journey to healing.
Review: SUDS' Alice in Bed — Tell me a story, bring me the world
Alice may have been in bed, but this show was up and at 'em.
Review: SUDS’ Amadeus — A Requiem for Success
The latest SUDS production hits the right notes.