Toasting Aussie Theatre

The Ship That Never Was is the true story of a group of convicts who stole a ship and successfully escaped imprisonment on Tasmania’s notorious Sarah Island to Chile in 1834. It’s pantomime at its best, 75min of glorious chaos well worth experiencing.

There’s theatre that’s easy to watch, and theatre that’s difficult to watch. And whether it is easy or difficult is completely different to whether it is good or bad. White Pearl is difficult to watch. But it’s great theatre.

It’ll have you laughing, crying and sitting on the edge of your seat from beginning to end – but it’s up to you to say whether it’s because of what’s happening on stage, or because of what New Theatre’s ‘The Spook’ says about Australia’s political future.

Don’t have time to read the full review? Click here for a quick summary of the who, what, where and wine of this production. In Elsinore, Denmark, Hamlet is mourning the death of his father and depressed and outraged at the quick marriage of his mother to Hamlet’s uncle Claudius. When the ghost of his […]