


I Expected a Celebration: Belvoir’s Blue Wizard
Joel Hillman and Charlie O’Grady felt complicit in a trainwreck.

A Show You’ve Probably Seen Before: SUDS’ Between Two Waves
A white male of above average intelligence attempts to impose important truths on the world through convoluted conversations with his straight-laced alternative girlfriend and his well-adjusted but perhaps emotionally stunted best friend, all the while battling mental deterioration. Add the heavy-handed metaphor of a climatologist with anxiety disorder and you’ve got a show you’ve probably…

Pretending Not to Hear Me: Belvoir’s Kill the Messenger
Nakkiah Lui’s Kill the Messenger has been billed as a “game changer” for black theatre. The show centres around three stories which constitute a direct attack on institutional racism and its agents – including the Belvoir audience. Paul hangs himself to escape cancer, after being profiled and turned away from hospital on suspicion of…


Old White Man Sees Shakespeare (SUDS Presents: William Shakespeare’s Richard)
Like the following appellation, SUDS’s Zach Beavon-Collin’s William Shakespeare’s Richard is too long. It takes a significantly edited-down Richard III (don’t wait up for the horse bit), and inserts the final part of Henry VI, Part III. As explained in the program notes, the intent is to give necessary background on the history and politics…

Tuesday (on a Wednesday)
(Eds note: This review contains brief, aesthetic criticism of a representation of self-harm.) Student theatre necessitates a degree of innovation. Tight budgets, a lack of resources and a limitation on available spaces creates a perfect breeding ground for invention. However, even when actors and directors are forced into back rooms, cafés, street corners, or Studio…

What a LARP! What a plunge!: SUDS and The Jetpack Collective Present Where Your Eyes Don’t Go
Harrison Dangate of Empyrean Incorporated writes to you in regards to your position at the company. He wishes to meet to discuss your professional and personal development, in person, at 10:15pm. I am giddy. Where Your Eyes Don’t Go was proposed as part of the SUDS Summer Season. It’s the sort of program that includes…

SUDS creates Chekhov’s nihilistic optimism on stage
Shannen Potter reviews SUDS’ latest production, Three Sisters.
