No Man’s Land, which explores the rocky terrain of memory, is a play for those who appreciate their theatre, like their scotch, ‘as it is’. Michael Gow directs with the best hands-off tradition, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
Culture / The Arts / Stage
theatre reviews 
Julius Caesar — Drama Theatre, Sydney
Bell Shakespeare’s current, touring production of Julius Caesar is one of the finest, most satisfying Bell productions yet and very possibly one of the finest theatrical productions in Australia this year, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
REVIEW: No Way To Treat A Lady
Darlinghurst Theatre’s production of No Way To Treat A Lady is clever enough, cute enough, corny enough, kitsch enough and touching enough to make for a thoroughly enjoyable evening’s entertainment, says Lloyd Bradford Syke.
Review: QI Live with Stephen Fry
Funny, educational, and always what it says on the packaging — quite interesting — QI Live brings the BBC comedy show to the stages of Australia, hosted by the international treasure Stephen Fry. Matt Smith headed along to the Melbourne show.
theatre reviews The Love of the Nightingale — Opera Theatre, Sydney
Richard Mills composed and conducted The Love of the Nightingale, a homegrown and slightly oddball buccaneering opera, writes Llloyd Bradford Skye.
theatre reviews This Year’s Ashes — Griffin Theatre, Sydney
This luminous production, directed by Shannon Murphy and designed by Rita Carmody, is a romcom of tragic proportions, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
theatre reviews Double Think — Art House, Melbourne Festival
This dance work, a new creation from choreographer/director Byron Perry, works well as a brief little satire on the human bias toward imaging the world in dualist categories, writes Andrew Fuhrmann.
theatre reviews Bloodland — Wharf 1, Sydney
Bloodland, from one of the country’s most distinguished indigenous artists, explores people who find themselves torn between the Western way and the Aboriginal cultures from whey they derive, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
Review: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
In many ways Summer of the Seventeenth Doll defines and embodies the theatrical notion of naturalism and it’s little wonder it’s still holds as perhaps the most significant of all Australian plays to date, writes Lloyd Bradford Syke.
Daily Proposition: Slam poetry for a good cause
“Hey you’re a cartoonist, why don’t YOU enter the Climate Change Poetry Slam?” And with those words, my career as a performance poet began.
theatre reviews Don Giovanni — Opera Theatre, Sydney
Who couldn’t love Don Juan? Who hasn’t loved him? He was the libertine all women privately crave and all men crave to be, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
comedy Review: Greg Fleet’s Bring It (Melbourne Fringe Festival)
Veteran comedian Greg Fleet’s Bring it definitely brings laughs, and Fleet is skilled enough to deliver the material with his eyes closed, but the show’s flow and structure is all over the place, writes Siobhan Argent.
Review: Jon Elder’s The Keytar Kid — Melbourne Fringe Festival
Armed with a keytar, Jon Elder revels in delivering songs on twentys-omething topics laid over with late baby-boomer sensibilities, writes Vince Chadwick.
Interview with Jacqueline Dark on opera, Mozart and Don G
What’s a physics graduate doing tangling with Don Giovanni? Jacqueline Dark talked to Curtain Call about the glories of Mozart, the darkness of Don G and life as an Opera Australia diva.
Review: Al’s Music Rant — Melbourne Fringe Festival
Several people in the audience for Al’s Music Rant, by Al Newsread, were wondering how on earth he knows so much about music, and Siobhan Argent quickly became one of them.
Rob Lloyd’s Who, Me — Melbourne Fringe Festival
Rob Lloyd is a self-confessed Dr Who fanatic and his new one man show renders all nerds far less socially inept by comparison, writes Siobhan Argent.
theatre reviews And They Called Him Mr Glamour — Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
Gareth Davies delivers, as writer and performer, around 70 minutes of cunningly constructed anti-theatre, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
Review: 10 Things I Know About You — Melbourne Fringe Festival
Dressed in a smart waist-coat and a striped tie, Simon Taylor presents a practised and polished performance to kick of the 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival, writes Matt Smith.
theatre reviews Avenue Q — Rockdale Musical Society, Sydney
Avenue Q is Sesame Street for adults, an utterly preposterous musical conceived and devised by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx. It’s bitingly cynical and enormously enjoyable, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
LadyNerd (Sydney Fringe) — Seymour Sound Lounge
Self-confessed ladynerd Keira Daley packs an awful lot into her one hour musical show about a woman fascinated by radioactivity. It’s fast and charming. A little too fast, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
theatre reviews Macbeth — Opera Theatre, Sydney
You’d think that anything Shakespearean would be a shoo-in for an operatic makeover. The music in this new Opera Australia production is too lyrical and sweet to capture the power of the Bard, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
theatre reviews Transparency — York Theatre, Sydney
Suzie Miller’s Transparency is a cleverly constructed homegrown drama about a man with a deep dark secret, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
theatre reviews The Threepenny Opera — Sydney Theatre
The cast burn incandescently with character and energy in this new Weill and Brecht production that rollicks along with erratic and manic energy, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
Comedy news round-up
This week in Laugh Track’s comedy news round-up: Joy of Sets and The Hamster Wheel have been given start dates and time slots, John Cleese announces a bunch of Australian shows, Rob Sitch’s upcoming film generates good buzz and more.
theatre reviews Africa — Wharf 2, Sydney
In the fabulously entertaining Africa, puppets and people interact almost as if there were no difference between the two. And the inspiration for the work is amazing in itself, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
