Reviews

Greenroom focusses on professional theatre produced in Queensland. Here you will find reviews of most productions from Brisbane’s major and independent companies. Our archive of production reviews commenced in September 2009.

Review: Midsummer (a play with songs) by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre -Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh) & La Boite Theatre Company at The Roundhouse

by Kate Foy 13 April 2012

This, for me, was pretty much a perfect evening in the theatre. Silly and sad, lyrical and earthy, and always tender at heart, this marvellous two-hander from Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, currently on tour around Australia, is a sheer delight. Judging by the ovation at play’s end and broad smiles, the others at the sold-out opening [...]

Review: X by Sunny Drake – Metro Arts The Independents 2012 at the Sue Benner Theatre

by David Burton 12 April 2012

It was a supportive and packed audience for the opening night of X the latest in the Metro Arts Independents 2012 season. Each of us was holding an obligatory drink as we entered the theatre but, long before the lights went down, aspects of the show, written, created, and performed by Sunny Drake had already begun.
We’d [...]

Review: At Sea, Staring Up – JUTE at JUTE Theatre (Cairns)

by Matthew Church 11 March 2012

Brett Walsh and Christiaan Westerveld

Main Image: Natalie Taylor
JUTE Theatre Company‘s twentieth year has been marked by the production of a beautiful piece filled with young, talented, regional actors, a meticulous design, and spectacular technical elements. At Sea, Staring Up, which opened late last week in Cairns, really has set a benchmark for the regional theatre company.
Commissioned at [...]

Review: Funny Boys – Empire Theatre Projects Company at Empire Theatre Studio (Toowoomba)

by Kate Foy 5 March 2012

This one left me wondering about the kind of theatre audience that likes what I think of (snootily, perhaps) as playground humour. I’ve seen glimpses of it on the Footy Show while channel surfing – of course! You know the kind of stuff: mildly offensive boob jokes, cross-dressing, lip-sync musical numbers …
Well, clearly there are [...]

Invisible Baggage: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll – Queensland Theatre Company at Playhouse QPAC

by Kate Foy 3 March 2012

I’ve struggled coming to terms with the production of Ray Lawler‘s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll currently playing at QTC – a co-presentation with Belvoir Street in Sydney and directed by Neil Armfield. I saw it last Saturday at a matinee performance where Blazey Best performed the role of Olive. As I understand it, she is [...]

Review: As You Like It – La Boite Theatre Company at The Roundhouse

by David Burton 26 February 2012

Main Image: Bryan Probets (Touchstone) | Images: Al Caeiro
David Berthold is quickly setting up a tradition for La Boite: opening a season with a Shakespeare, directed by the Artistic Director himself. As You Like It was preceded by Hamlet (2010) and Julius Caesar (2011), in which Berthold proved he could bend the material to his will, [...]

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