This is not an easy play to write about. Nor should it be. Of all the subjects and issues which can and remain taboo in the contemporary wo...

Written in 1995, Jez Butterworth’s Mojo is often credited with reviving the urban gangster genre, typified in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock an...

We are told Cain and Abel  is “a show about violence and reinventing history, made by women.” We are told Melbourne theatre-makers THE RAB...

From the promotional blurb and with a title like Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography , you could perhaps be forgiven for expecting, wel...

It has been often said that Shakespeare, with Titus Andronicus , had a Tarantino phase, but did Tarantino have a Shakespeare phase? This pr...

Sophocles’ Theban plays are among the all-time greatest stories in literature, and along with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the great...

I first discovered Ross Mueller ’s Construction of the Human Heart in 2008 or 2009, in the university library, and became fascinated by it...

There’s an old quote of uncertain origin, which you are no doubt familiar with: ‘Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of...

You know the film, Strictly Ballroom . Scott, a young dancer, bored by the convention and rigourous boundaries of competitive dancing, long...

Described as a shape-shifting theatrical puzzle, Marius von Mayenburg’s Perplex is, well, a perplexing series of scenes, each interconnecte...