Disrupting Stages

11/10/2026

TARTUFFE - A grieving matriarch. A fractured family. A man who promises to make it all better. What could go wrong?

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KXT bAKEHOUSE

A grieving matriarch. A fractured family. A man who promises to make it all better. What could go wrong? There is something reassuringly contemporary about returning to Molière’s Tartuffe right now. A charismatic outsider walks into a family already destabilised by grief, presents himself as the ...

11/10/2026

"Islander" - Georgia Laga’aia and Ellie Chan bring heart, energy and sincerity to this story of myth, belonging and our relationship with nature.
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Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp)

08/10/2026

A Room with a View (Belvoir) A captivating adaptation, elegant direction and a company full of wit and grace. Theatre is in very good hands.

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Belvoir St Theatre
Kabuku Public Relations

A Room with a ViewA captivating adaptation, elegant direction and a company full of wit and grace. Theatre is in very good hands.E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View follows Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman whose carefully ordered Edwardian life is unsettled by a trip to Florence. There, surro...

23/09/2026

A heartfelt father-son story that finds humour, tenderness and plenty to think about in the push for independence. Ash Walker's "The Unburdening"

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The Sydney Fringe
Subtlenuance

The Unburdening - Erskineville Town Hall It is disarming to watch a playwright sit at a keyboard and cheerfully lead an audience in a round of applause before handing his play over to two actors and taking a seat among us. Ash Walker's The Unburdening is semi-autobiographical, but from its opening m...

21/09/2026

A world of intriguing visual possibilities — gloriously ridiculous, occasionally haunting, and full of flashes of something genuinely exciting.

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The Sydney Fringe

Frumpus — Landed I really wanted to like this. Frumpus is a long-running Sydney experimental performance collective, known for irreverent, absurdist, physically theatrical work, now returning after a lengthy hiatus. They come with pedigree: a long history of making strange, irreverent, experimenta...

20/09/2026

Their youth is not a limitation; it is the work’s great strength.

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The Sydney Fringe
PYT Fairfieldg.robayo

Dancing with the Roots“Their youth is not a limitation; it is the work’s great strength.” Stepping off the train at Fairfield, the city traveller enters another world. One of Sydney’s most culturally diverse suburbs, Fairfield is home to a significant Colombian community, and Dancing with th...

20/09/2026

Then something comes along that jams the filing cabinet.

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Doppelgangster
The Sydney Fringe
Tobias Alexander Edward Manderson-Galvin

Cold War 2.0 (Dopplegangster)"Then something comes along that jams the filing cabinet." As much as I want to avoid putting this into words, Doppelgangster’s Cold War 2.0 was one of those undeniable Fringe experiences. Perhaps this is what happens when you're just back from Edinburgh Fringe. You sp...

31/08/2026

When Prophecy Fails

★★★ A beautifully composed production I admired considerably more than I loved.

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Edinburgh International Festival

When Prophecy Fails ★★★ A beautifully composed production I admired considerably more than I loved. The story itself is stranger than fiction. In 1954, Chicago housewife Dorothy Martin claimed to be receiving messages from extraterrestrial beings who warned that a catastrophic flood would dest...

30/08/2026

Taverna Miresia – Mario, Bella, Anastasia

★★★★★ Verdict: Sublime! I don’t want Banushi to explain the dream. I want to surrender to it.

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Edinburgh International Festival

Taverna Miresia – Mario, Bella, Anastasia★★★★★ Verdict: Sublime! I don’t want Banushi to explain the dream. I want to surrender to it.I first came across Mario Banushi’s work from Greece and, two years ago, finally caught Goodbye, Lindita at Adelaide Festival. It was one of those the...

29/08/2026

The Shocking Truth About Flat Earth

★★★☆☆
There is a very good musical somewhere inside The Shocking Truth About Flat Earth. It just isn't quite this one yet.

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Pleasance Dome
Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Shocking Truth About Flat Earth ★★★☆☆There is a very good musical somewhere inside The Shocking Truth About Flat Earth. It just isn't quite this one yet. At 60 minutes, the show feels less like a fully formed musical than an entertaining, highly performed snapshot of a larger work. The...