Theatre

Carissa Licciardello and Elsie Yager’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando for Belvoir is most rewarding where it takes the most risk.

Kirsty Marillier’s play Destiny captures both the menace of South Africa’s apartheid regime and the joyous energy it sought to stifle.

On the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Hisashi Inoue’s great postwar play The Face of Jizo recounts a horrific event with profound humanity.

Sydney Theatre Company’s adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley is an entertaining two hours that comes with a geniunely unexpected twist.

Independent collective Pony Cam took on Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard to make a work about artists as a vanishing class in today’s Australia.

For its centenary season, Brisbane’s La Boite Theatre brings in Dead Puppet Society for an animated fable about the climate crisis.

One of Bell Shakespeare’s finest productions in recent years, Peter Evans’ Hobbesian staging of Coriolanus is a brutal look at power and politics.

S. Shakthidharan has scaled down his usual epic theatre for a four-woman show with a stellar turn at its heart.

Judy Davis finds the humour in Helen Garner’s quietly seething protagonist in a newly adapted stage production of The Spare Room.

Pramkicker, produced by independent feminist company MO Theatre for Queensland Theatre, explores women’s anger – channelling it through humour.