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Criptonite: Intergalactic Redux - This ensemble has committed fully to the dream, and they take you with them.https://ww...
28/05/2026

Criptonite: Intergalactic Redux - This ensemble has committed fully to the dream, and they take you with them.

https://www.disruptingstages.com/post/criptonite-intergalactic-redux-red-rattler

The Red Rattler Theatre

Criptonite: Intergalactic ReduxRed Rattler TheatreThere is a moment, somewhere between the silver-jump suited stagehands gliding across the stage and a pole artist suspended mid-air under a crescent moon, when you stop watching a show and start inhabiting a world. That is what Criptonite does. It bu...

SONDER - The production surrounding the material is extraordinary. The material itself is still finding its sharpest edg...
26/05/2026

SONDER - The production surrounding the material is extraordinary. The material itself is still finding its sharpest edges.
https://www.disruptingstages.com/post/sonder-old-Old Fitz Theatre

Old Fitz Theatre
berlage&co

SONDEROld Fitz Theatre |Berlage & CoLet's start where we have to: the set. Slowly moving shards of mirror hang and descend around a lone figure on a reflective circular black floor, catching light, multiplying it, throwing it back in fragments. As a visual language for a show about shattered identit...

ATYP's "Saplings" - This is not youth theatre in the sense of apprentice work or earnest effort. It is simply excellent ...
16/05/2026

ATYP's "Saplings" - This is not youth theatre in the sense of apprentice work or earnest effort. It is simply excellent theatre — made with the kind of creative integrity and political clarity that most mainstage companies would be proud to claim.

https://www.disruptingstages.com/post/saplings-syndey-opera-house

Sydney Opera House
Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp)

"Would you risk breaking bail for a packet of Mi Goreng?" The answer, it turns out, is yes. Obviously yes. And the fact that you understand exactly why, without hesitation, without judgement, tells you everything about what Saplings achieves in its seventy or so minutes on stage. This is theatre mad...

Estelle Davis and Alex Kirwan are remarkable — directors should be taking note. The work is so individual and detailed i...
13/05/2026

Estelle Davis and Alex Kirwan are remarkable — directors should be taking note. The work is so individual and detailed it can break your heart in Gary Owen's "Romeo & Julie" at KXT bAKEHOUSE

https://www.disruptingstages.com/post/romeo-julie-kxt

Mad March Hare Theatre Company

Romeo & JulieKXTGary Owen’s Romeo & Julie arrives at KXT on Broadway with all the qualities that have made Owen one of the great contemporary playwrights. His writing is always underpinned by deep compassion; the characters are richly detailed, the dialogue eminently actable, and the storytelling ...

"Murder Horse "is at its most alive when it's darkest. Ruby Teys is frankly incredible, and the creative gold in this to...
11/05/2026

"Murder Horse "is at its most alive when it's darkest. Ruby Teys is frankly incredible, and the creative gold in this town is undeniable. The horse has bolted. Now somebody needs to ride it.

https://www.disruptingstages.com/post/murder-horse-bmec

Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre - BMEC

Murder Horse – The Musical Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre Something is waiting in the wings at BMEC. It has four legs, a body count, and no intention of losing.Sweeney Todd meets Succession. That's the pitch. The Succession reference holds up beautifully: a dying patriarch plays his childr...

An Iliad should feel barely containable - like history erupting through the performer. Here, it feels carefully held.htt...
22/04/2026

An Iliad should feel barely containable - like history erupting through the performer. Here, it feels carefully held.

https://www.disruptingstages.com/post/an-illiad-sydney-theatre-company

Sydney Theatre Company

An IlliadWharf 1At Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf 1, David Wenham takes on An Iliad - Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s one-actor adaptation of The Iliad, directed by Damien Ryan.The work itself has a formidable lineage. Originally created at Seattle Repertory Theatre, An Iliad distils Homer’...

A theatre full of children and adults leaning forward in shared wonder feels quietly radicalhttps://www.disruptingstages...
09/04/2026

A theatre full of children and adults leaning forward in shared wonder feels quietly radical

https://www.disruptingstages.com/post/erth-s-dinosaurs-from-hatchlings-to-giants

SSydney Opera House

Erth’s Dinosaurs – From Hatchlings to GiantsSydney Opera HouseThere’s something quietly radical about sitting in a theatre full of children and adults, all leaning forward in shared wonder. In an age of relentless screens and speed, Erth’s Dinosaurs - From Hatchlings to Giants offers a diffe...

Skillfully performed, though the story it serves feels oddly distant.https://www.disruptingstages.com/post/how-not-to-ma...
14/03/2026

Skillfully performed, though the story it serves feels oddly distant.

https://www.disruptingstages.com/post/how-not-to-make-it-in-america-adelaide-frigne-2026

Adelaide Fringe
Holden Street Theatres

How Not to Make It In AmericaHolden St TheatreThe mythology of the young artist heading to New York to make it big is one that theatre returns to again. Emily Steel’s How Not to Make It in America, presented at by Theatre Republic, begins squarely within that familiar dream: a hopeful Australian a...

A sweet, heartfelt piece of storytelling that invites the audience to sit quietly with love and loss.https://www.disrupt...
14/03/2026

A sweet, heartfelt piece of storytelling that invites the audience to sit quietly with love and loss.

https://www.disruptingstages.com/post/the-soaking-of-vera-shrimp-adelaide-fringe-2026

Adelaide Fringe
Joanne Hartstone Presents

The Soaking of Vera ShrimpHolden St TheatreThere is something quietly disarming about a show that announces itself as both a science lesson and a story about grief. The Soaking of Vera Shrimp, a 40-minute solo work leans into that curious combination with a gentle confidence that suits the intimate....

With quiet precision, Mensch demonstrates the taste and control of a consummate storyteller.https://www.disruptingstages...
14/03/2026

With quiet precision, Mensch demonstrates the taste and control of a consummate storyteller.

https://www.disruptingstages.com/post/my-grandpa-doesn-t-follow-me-on-instagram-a-guide-to-trans-generational-road-tripping-adelaide-fr

Adelaide Fringe

My Grandpa Doesn’t Follow Me on Instagram: A Guide To Trans-generational Road-TrippingThe MillSome stories arrive onstage with a clear theatrical architecture. Others unfold more like a long car journey: winding, unexpected, occasionally uncomfortable, and ultimately intimate. Yoz Mensch’s My Gr...

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