Theatre review: Hope is at the heart of Creation Creation
Windmill Theatre Company’s Creation Creation is a show that playfully and creatively explores some of life’s biggest questions.
Windmill Theatre Company’s Creation Creation is a show that playfully and creatively explores some of life’s biggest questions.
In Pride in Prejudice, some of the satire is apt and cutting, some of it falls off the proverbial cliff – such is the death-or-glory of comedy and politics.
Famous Last Words makes its first foray into Theatre of the Absurd with this contemporary adaptation of Jean Genet’s The Maids, a play that cracks open social class with deadly consequences.
The audience is primed for discomfort from the outset in this intense two-hander.
In his compelling monologue, Édouard Louis meticulously describes a childhood ruined by poverty, abuse, and alienation. He blames his father but comes to realise there are also much larger social and structural cruelties in play.
This sharp new play from a team of young Adelaide theatre-makers is a guide to the grease, grime, and glory of making a living in restaurant work. ★★★★