Theatre First
282 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -A companion podcast to Movies First, with all things Theatre related…reviews and more from the world of the live stage. Presented by respected reviewer Alex First
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232: Sunday in the Park with George (Watch This, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 23, 2019 08:49 - 3 minutes - 3.66 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 232 Sunday in the Park with George (Watch This, Melbourne, Australia) In Paris, 1884, George Seurat strives to transform the way we see. While he sketches in a park, preoccupied with composition, balance, light and harmony, his subjects are busy wrestling with life in a changing world - in particular, his muse and mistress, Dot, who feels both alive and invisible within his gaze. A cent...
231: Australian Realness (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 22, 2019 01:34 - 2 minutes - 2.81 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 231 Australian Realness (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) The summery embrace of an Aussie family Christmas. Familiar characters pop the cork on mid-range bubbly for a raucous celebration of festive traditions. But, all is not well. As adult kids regress to the parental homestead, Mum and Dad’s apparent wealth is waning. They’ve sold the Audi. There are fewer presents. They’re ...
230: Let Men Tremble (Theatre Works, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 21, 2019 02:11 - 2 minutes - 2.79 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 230 Let Men Tremble (Theatre Works, Melbourne, Australia) Contemporary and experimental theatre company The Danger Ensemble return to Theatre Works following their hugely divisive 2018 production The Hamlet Apocalypse. Inspired by The Scarlet Letter, a 17th-century puritan romance, Let Men Tremble throws colonial concepts of sin, sex and the role of women in society into a modern-day c...
229: Ghost Quartet (Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 20, 2019 02:43 - 4 minutes - 4.1 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 229 Ghost Quartet (Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia) Music, Lyrics, and Text by DAVE MALLOY (creator of the hit Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812) A musical to die for… Drawing inspiration from murder ballads and The Twilight Zone, GHOST QUARTET elegantly blurs the line between a contemporary concept album and traditional musical theatre. Four music...
228: Sensory Decadence (Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 19, 2019 04:41 - 2 minutes - 2.65 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 228 Sensory Decadence (Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia) The experiencing self lives each moment. The remembering self constructs the story afterwards. Human beings are naturally inclined to value remembering over experiencing. But what would happen if the Experiencing Self were triumphant? In a vibrant celebration of sensation, five circus artists pursue the ecstatic, immediat...
227: Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 16, 2019 04:39 - 4 minutes - 4.05 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 227 Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) After premiering in Sydney, Roald Dahl’s delicious tale, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is now playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne and is on sale in Brisbane. It’s a delectable treat featuring songs from the original film, including Pure Imagination, The Candy Man and I’ve Got a Golden Tic...
226: Golden Shield (MTC, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 13, 2019 02:16 - 3 minutes - 3.55 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 226 Golden Shield (MTC, Melbourne, Australia) A riveting new play filled with disarming humour, Golden Shield sees trailblazing writer Anchuli Felicia King smash the personal against the political in a globetrotting thriller. Tenacious young lawyer Julie Chen (Fiona Choi) brings her sister Eva (Jing-Xuan Chan) on board as a translator in a risky legal battle with international ramifica...
225: Solomon's Secrets (Saltpillar Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 13, 2019 01:43 - 3 minutes - 2.93 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 225 Solomon’s Secrets (Saltpillar Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) Solomons’ Secrets focuses on a run-of-the-mill Melbourne family the Solomons, including parents Helen and Clive and their children Josh, Roz, Anna and Jen as they navigate life’s big issues: relationships, fertility, parenthood, aging, sex, love, and death. With humour and pathos, the play examines the lengths people go ...
224: A Midnight Visit (Broad Encounters, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 10, 2019 01:57 - 4 minutes - 4.02 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 224 A Midnight Visit (Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia) After sensational takeovers in Sydney and Perth, A Midnight Visit has been unleashed on Melbourne with new tricks and treats! An epic 34 rooms awaits you in an abandoned warehouse in Melbourne’s inner north. Explore a dark dreamworld of shadows, thrills, obsession, and awe. A performance experience like no other, you will e...
223: night, Mother (Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 09, 2019 12:00 - 4 minutes - 3.84 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 223 Night, Mother (Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia) The turbulent tale of a mother-daughter relationship rejuvenated by the daughter’s admission she will kill herself that evening. On an ordinary Saturday night Jessie tells her mother, ‘I’m going to kill myself’. Unfolding in real time over the next 90 minutes, and building like a sonata, a domesticated apocalypse reveals itsel...
222. My Dearworthy Darling (The Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 08, 2019 10:01 - 3 minutes - 3.05 MBMy Dearworthy Darling (The Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) In modern-day Australia, a marriage is pulled apart by mistrust, paranoia, and violence. A woman breaks apart in the turmoil. In medieval England, a woman has mystic visions. The patriarchs write them off as female madness, but she knows her truth. These visions allow her to be heard—maybe even to connect across centuries. In My Dearworthy Darling, threads that run through history are woven into a tapestry. As ...
221: The Ghetto Cabaret (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 08, 2019 08:35 - 3 minutes - 3.25 MBThe Ghetto Cabaret (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia) Any night could be their last performance. Danger, disease, and betrayal surround the Jewish musicians, singers, dancers, acrobats, opera and theatre performers thrown together and trapped in the Ghettos of WWII. But their fear is transformed into art as they try to create meaning out of the terror and chaos around them. Full of Yiddish songs unheard for decades, The Ghetto Cabaret is provocative and challenging, revea...
220: Thoroughly Modern Millie (The Production Company, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 06, 2019 02:26 - 4 minutes - 4.17 MBThoroughly Modern Millie (The Production Company, Melbourne, Australia) It’s the height of the jazz age, the roaring 20’s, and small-town girl Millie Dillmount has just arrived in New York City, ready to make her dreams come true. Millie’s plan is simple: find a job as a secretary for an eligible bachelor, and then marry him. It doesn’t take long for Millie’s “thoroughly modern” plan to go awry. Her conniving landlady Mrs. Meers plots to kidnap Millie’s best friend Dorothy and s...
219: Price Check The Musical (The Alex Theatre. Melbourne, Australia) (review)
August 03, 2019 06:15 - 3 minutes - 4.94 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 219 Price Check The Musical (The Alex Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) Price Check! is a new Australian musical comedy in 2 acts, exploring the lives of 5 diverse characters in a suburban Melbourne supermarket. Mr Butler is a well-paid profit hungry store manager with a bitter divorce and a bad dance routine. Narelle Sims is a middle-aged widowed checkout chick slowly working her way thro...
218: Blackrock (EbbFlow Theatre Co,. Melbourne, Australia) (reviewed)
July 30, 2019 01:40 - 3 minutes - 3.12 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 218 Blackrock (EbbFlow Theatre Co., Melbourne, Australia) Blackrock is an Australian beachside working-class suburb where the youth surf by day and rave by night. Desperate to impress, Toby hosts a party at the local surf for his 18th birthday. It is unsupervised with alcohol flowing freely. The following morning, it is revealed that 15-year-old Tracy Warner was killed at the party. As...
217: Fifty Words (Lab Theatre, Melbourne Australia) (review)
July 27, 2019 07:36 - 4 minutes - 4.1 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 217 Fifty Words (Lab Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) Adam and Jan are alone together for the first time in almost 10 years. Without the buffer of their nine-year-old son (who is away at his first-ever sleepover) Adam’s attempt to seduce his wife before he leaves on business the next day begins a suspenseful nightlong roller-coaster ride of revelation, rancour, passion, and humour that ex...
216: This Wide Night (Green Light Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
July 25, 2019 03:12 - 3 minutes - 3.28 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 216 This Wide Night (Green Light Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) On her release from prison, Lorraine heads straight to Marie's. On the inside they used to share everything, but the friendship that once protected them now threatens to smother the fragile freedom they have found. Please be aware that this play contains strong language and adult themes and is not appropriate for children....
215: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
July 21, 2019 07:50 - 2 minutes - 2.75 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 215 A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia) Following a sold-out premiere season in 2016, Sentient Theatre’s stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s classic essay returns. Breathing new life into the history of women and literature, this production features four performers as aspects of Woolf’s mind in conversation with herself and the audience. T...
214: Come From Away (Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
July 20, 2019 11:00 - 4 minutes - 4.16 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 214 Come From Away (Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) COME FROM AWAY tells the remarkable true story of thousands of stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland, Canada that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships. Don’t miss this breathtaking new musi...
213: Shakespeare In Love (Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne, Australia)
July 19, 2019 02:18 - 3 minutes - 3.8 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 213 Shakespeare In Love (Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne, Australia) The Oscar-winning film comes to the stage in a boisterous romantic comedy directed by the illustrious Simon Phillips (Muriel’s Wedding the Musical). For more information visit https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/season-2019/shakespeare-in-love/ Theatre First RSS feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheat...
212: Pomona (Red Stitch Theatre, Melbourne Australia) (review)
July 19, 2019 01:54 - 4 minutes - 4.71 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 212 Pomona (Red Stitch Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) There’s a secret place right inside the concrete heart of the city. Pomona. Nobody knows what’s in there, it’s like a place time forgot. But every day a delivery van arrives and departs. What’s going on in there? Do you really want to know? Or do you simply have no choice? Alistair McDowall’s dark and genre rich horror story is gr...
211: Bring It On, The Musical (Australian touring production) (review)
July 18, 2019 11:51 - 4 minutes - 4.7 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 211Bring It On, The Musical (Melbourne, Australia) Uniting some of the freshest and funniest creative minds on Broadway, BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL features an original story by Tony Award winner, Jeff Whitty (Avenue Q), music and lyrics by Tony Award-winning composer, Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights, Hamilton), music by Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning composer, Tom Kitt (Next to Normal...
210: Autocannibal (Theatre Works, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
July 18, 2019 11:31 - 3 minutes - 3.23 MBAutocannibal (Theatre Works, Melbourne, Australia) Why do we do things that we know are bad for us? Addiction, obesity, corruption, over-consumption. On all fronts homo sapiens seem to be intent on wiping themselves out through perplexingly myopic decision making. In the aftermath of an apocalyptic social collapse, one person survives – but he’s still hungry… Drawing together elements of circus, performance art, BDSM culture and clowning, AutoCannibal is an experimental new work...
209: Krapp's Last Tape (fortyfivedownstairs Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
July 05, 2019 10:38 - 2 minutes - 2.47 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 209 Krapp’s Last Tape (fortyfivedownstairs theatre) Australian satirist and theatre icon Max Gillies teams with award-winning director and long-time Beckett aficionado Laurence Strangio to present Krapp’s Last Tape – Samuel Beckett’s remarkable duet for solo performer and tape recorder. The comic meets the tragic in this timeless evocation of memory, existence and lost love, as Krapp, ...
208: Solaris (Malthouse Theatre) (review)
July 05, 2019 02:05 - 4 minutes - 4.06 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 208 Solaris (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) MYSTERIOUS PLANET. INCOMPREHENSIBLE INTELLIGENCE. GHOSTS OF REGRET. ‘Until you experience it,’ said Snow, ‘there’s no point talking about it.’ A cagey comment, but Kris took it in stride. Then, she experienced it. Within hours of arriving in orbit around the mercurial planet Solaris, Kris encounters evasive inhabitants, self-isolat...
207: A Little Night Music (Victorian Opera) (review)
July 01, 2019 11:02 - 4 minutes - 4.4 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 207 A Little Night Music (Victorian Opera) If anyone can bridge the gap between opera and musicals, it is the incomparable Stephen Sondheim. With his characteristic wit and indelible musical talent comes the most musical of musicals: A Little Night Music. Over the course of a weekend in the country, an entangled group of worldly characters rekindle lost love, court new liaisons, and fl...
206: Wake In Fright (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
June 27, 2019 01:03 - 3 minutes - 3.11 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 206 Wake In Fright (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Australia) John Grant is well-read, but an outback misadventure strands him—cashless and jobless—in a harsh and remote Aussie outpost, Bundanyabba. So, he makes new ‘mates’: they’re quick with a drink, but with every scull a dark violence lurches forward. Are these blokes fair dinkum, or is there something more sinister at the heart of t...
205: Storm Boy (MTC, Melbourne Australia) (review)
June 22, 2019 07:28 - 4 minutes - 4.23 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 205 Storm Boy (MTC, Melbourne Australia) In a wild and remote area of coastline on South Australia’s Coorong, Storm Boy and his reclusive father live in a secluded shack, hidden away from the harsh realities of city life. After befriending a local Ngarrindjeri man, Storm Boy discovers three orphaned pelican chicks and decides to take them in. What follows is a remarkable journey of disc...
204: Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (40th Anniversary Production)
June 22, 2019 00:30 - 4 minutes - 3.98 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 204 Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (40th Anniversary Production) The pre-eminent leading man of Australian musical theatre, Anthony Warlow, is joined by one of Australia’s best-known stage and screen performers, the incomparable Gina Riley, as the pair join forces in this spectacular re-imagined concert version of the musical thriller SWEENEY TODD: The Demon Barber of Fl...
203: Puttin' On The Ritz (Australian and UK Tour 2019) (review)
June 19, 2019 07:05 - 3 minutes - 3.44 MBPuttin’ On The Ritz (Australian and UK Tour 2019) (review) With a full supporting cast of west end singers and dancers. The spectacular American production of PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ first toured the UK in 2014, where it broke box office records on its first time in front of a British audience. Since then the show has toured around the globe playing to sell out houses. PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ takes you on a musical journey with wonderful music from three legendary composers, Cole Porter,...
202: Travesties by Tom Stoppard (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Australia) (review)
June 14, 2019 06:24 - 4 minutes - 4.69 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 202 Travesties (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia) (review) Based on the bizarre true story of James Joyce’s 1917 Zurich production of The Importance of Being Earnest, and celebrated as one of Tom Stoppard’s greatest comedies, Travesties puts Joyce, Vladimir Lenin and Tristan Tzara together. For more information visit https://www.fortyfivedownstairs.com/wp2016/event/travesties...
201: Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti (Emotionworks, Melbourne Australia) (review)
June 11, 2019 02:44 - 3 minutes - 3.29 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 201 Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti (Emotionworks, Melbourne, Australia) (review) Emotionworks Cut Opera condenses Mozart’s classic comedy opera and fuses it with 1950’s Rock and Roll in this swinging, action-packed, retro-inspired production. This is opera fusion! Hear the best hits from the 1950s alongside Mozart’s beautiful arias and ensembles performed by an exceptional young cast of opera a...
200: Drive (Theatre Works, Melbourne Australia) (review)
June 08, 2019 08:28 - 3 minutes - 3.28 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 200 Drive (Theatre Works, Melbourne, Australia) (review) Drive is an exploration of fallen, deviant women set against long stretches of open road. It is inspired by the true story of former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak, who in 2007, got into her car and drove non-stop 14-hours from Houston to Orlando to confront her ex-lover’s lover. Disguised in a dark wig, glasses and trench coat, she ha...
199: Shit (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
June 08, 2019 07:55 - 2 minutes - 2.58 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 199 Shit (fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia) (review) Winner of four Green Room awards: best production, best writing, best set and costume, and best ensemble Billy, Bobby and Sam are coming back after a sold-out season of SHIT in 2016. These girls don’t believe in anything. They’re mean, foul-mouthed, downtrodden, hard-bitten, utterly damaged and the kind of women most would ...
Escaped Alone (Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
June 03, 2019 08:28 - 3 minutes - 2.98 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 198 Escaped Alone (Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review) A sun-drenched suburban backyard, four older women: Vi, Sally and Lena and the visiting Mrs Jarrett reflect on their lives over the course of many summers together. A mariticide, an ailurophobe, a shut-in and a sometime lollypop lady. The years run into each other and the recollections take on a strangely unset...
Disparate Scenes for Millennial Dreams (Meat Market Stables, Melbourne Australia) (review)
June 03, 2019 02:23 - 3 minutes - 3.43 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 197 Disparate Scenes for Millennial Dreams (Meat Market Stables, Melbourne, Australia) (review) Periscope presents a triple bill of brand new short plays commissioned for Meat Market’s Stables. This semi-immersive event will drop audiences into three unique works which confront the anxieties, frustrations and insecurities of the millennial generation. For more information visit https...
Ghosted (Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
June 01, 2019 06:20 - 3 minutes - 3.07 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 196 Ghosted (Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia) (review) A brand-new Australian Comedy Oliver invites a stranger around to his apartment for some company – and works out pretty quickly that they’re only interested in one thing (it isn’t the wine). Things go from bad to worst-case-scenario when Oliver’s house-guest attempts to make a covert getaway and gets run down by the ridesha...
Love by Patricia Cornelius (fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
May 26, 2019 08:07 - 2 minutes - 2.85 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Theatre First Episode 195 Love by Patricia Cornelius (fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne, Australia) (review) LOVE is an unapologetic exploration of love and addiction. Tanya, Annie and Lorenzo are from the bottom of the heap. They’ve been abused, they’re abusive, and they’re difficult to like, let alone love, but it’s love in all its distorted and mutated forms that holds them together. For more information vi...
The Three Graces (Theatre Works, Melbourne Australia) (review)
May 26, 2019 05:03 - 4 minutes - 4.32 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). The Three Graces (The Production Company, Melbourne, Australia) (review) 'Carved straight from the epic traditions of Greek theatre, The Three Graces is drama on a grand scale. With striking visual clarity and amplified physical performances produced by Melbourne theatre company, The Anchor, The Three Graces will plunge audiences straight into the gearshift of the twenty-first century. The Three Graces hav...
Heisenberg (MTC, Melbourne Australia) ( review)
May 24, 2019 02:32 - 3 minutes - 3.35 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Heisenberg (The Production Company, Melbourne, Australia) (review) At a bustling London train station, 42-year-old American, Georgie, kisses the neck of a much older Irish man, Alex. This electric encounter thrusts two perfect strangers into a fascinating and unlikely relationship, part friendship, part love-affair. But is Georgie really all she seems? For more information visit https://www.mtc.com.au/pla...
Lazarus (The Production Company, Melbourne Australia) (review)
May 24, 2019 02:17 - 4 minutes - 4.23 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Lazarus (The Production Company, Melbourne, Australia) (review) Lazarus was the final project of David Bowie. First staged in New York in late 2015, Lazarus has enjoyed sell-out seasons in New York and London. This will be the Australian premiere of the ground-breaking musical. Featuring 18 David Bowie songs including Changes, Heroes, and Absolute Beginners, Lazarus is inspired by the novel The Man Who Fell...
Cloudstreet (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
May 18, 2019 09:59 - 4 minutes - 3.9 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Cloudstreet (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review) The house at number one Cloud Street is a great continent where two damaged clans collide. The two families—the Lambs and the Pickles—are as contrasting as the Australia they inhabit. Teetotallers and tipplers, workhorses or wastrels, fate makers versus chance chasers. But really, they’re two sides of the same coin; one that was tossed during Wor...
Damaged Guns (Melbourne, Australia) (a review)
May 17, 2019 05:21 - 3 minutes - 3.3 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Damaged Guns (Melbourne, Australia) (review) The performance does involve travelling in cars (which is included in your ticketing cost). The Performance of Damaged Guns BEGINS and ENDS atFlinders Street Station, (Elizabeth Street exit), Melbourne, For more information visit https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=481530 Theatre First RSS feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ivetheatrereviews Subscrib...
Four Dogs and a Bone (Q44 Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (a review)
May 11, 2019 06:14 - 3 minutes - 2.96 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Four Dogs and a Bone (Q44 Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review) Brenda wants to be a star, she even chants for it! Collette, the other actress in the film, is in her way, so Brenda must convince Bradley, the producer, to cut Collette's part. Bradley, knowing full well that the film is seriously over budget, intimates that he will do it, if she can convince her stepbrother, a giant movie star, to make a cam...
The Temple (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review)
May 10, 2019 02:52 - 2 minutes - 2.34 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). The Temple (Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia) (review) Welcome to The Temple. Here, we are not ourselves. No-one ever really wants to be boring old ‘just me’. That’s why the residents of The Temple are always being someone else. Feel free to jump in. It’s a liberating exercise that is really catching on. Join an orgy of comedic performers for a short course on How to Be Human. Everything’s set for a...
The Violent Outburst That Drew You To Me (MTC) (a review)
May 09, 2019 02:48 - 3 minutes - 3.02 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). The Violent Outburst That Drew You To Me (MTC) (review) Connor is 16 and angry. He doesn’t know why. Lately everything and everyone is annoying him. He’s slamming doors, flipping desks and always fighting. But, when he takes his rage one step too far, his parents decide to leave him in the forest for a week, alone. That should sort him out. Until he meets Lotte – also 16, also angry, but maybe just the frien...
Amity Dry in Fortified (a review)
May 04, 2019 01:56 - 2 minutes - 2.73 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Amity Dry in Fortified (review) This is a war story. But there are no guns and ammo, just angry words and hurt pride. It’s a story about blowing up your life and starting again. About divorce, love, loss and discovering a strength you never knew you had. This is Amity at her most raw and heartfelt and if you loved her smash hit ’39 Forever’ it is not to be missed. For more information visit https://chapelo...
Cosi (a review)
May 04, 2019 00:37 - 3 minutes - 3.68 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Cosi (a review) A darkly funny and deeply moving ensemble piece, Così has occupied a special place in the hearts of Australians since Toni Collette, Ben Mendelsohn and Barry Otto starred in the acclaimed 1996 film. With its motley crew of loveable characters, Così offers a poignant reminder of the transformative power of music and performance, and how art can make us soar – even if just for a moment. For mo...
Barnum The Circus Musical (a review)
May 03, 2019 06:23 - 4 minutes - 4.48 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Barnum The Circus Musical (review) Based on the life of Phineas Taylor Barnum, BARNUM The Circus Musical will show you every sight and wonder that name stands for. Witness Jumbo, the largest elephant in the world, Joice Heth the oldest woman to ever live, and the most beautiful operatic voice to ever appear on stage, the Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind. Starring in this magical all-new production of the awar...
Human Nature 'Little More Love' (tour) (review)
May 02, 2019 12:13 - 3 minutes - 3.8 MBStream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Human Nature ‘Little More Love’ (tour) (review) Australia’s most popular vocal group, Human Nature, have announced they are making a triumphant return home in 2019. They will embark on a dazzling national tour that will form a celebration for their loyal fans on the eve of the group’s amazing 30 years of making music together. Fresh from their smash hit Las Vegas headlining residency – where they have perfo...