Opinion

It’s love, ethics and neuroscience in Lucy Prebble’s high-voltage psychological drama The Effect, presented by Theatre Works until Saturday 18 April. Reviewer Olivia Di Grazia grapples with the side-effects of the staging.

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Theatre Works new staging of Tom Holloway’s Beyond the Neck, an emotionally resonant work based on testimony from those affected by the Port Arthur massacre. Marking 30 years since thirty-five lives were lost, this production assumes new relevance and poignancy in the wake of the tragic Bondi shootings. Review by Olivia Di Grazia.

Not since 1985 has Ray Lawler’s The Doll Trilogy –the Australian classic Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and its later-written prequels Kid Stakes and Other Times – been staged in its entirety. TWiSK reviews Kid Stakes in the first of a trilogy of reviews.

Reviewed by Olivia Di Grazia for TWiSK. Playing at Theatre Works until 21 February.

Tradition and ambition rally for the win in Australian Open writes Olivia Di Grazia in her review of the latest Theatreworks production. Until 31 January at Theatreworks Acland Street.

Cr Justin Halliday explains why he voted against the proposed changes, along with Councillors Buckingham and Crawford, on the basis that the current local laws are already adequate to address encampments and associated anti-social behaviour.

Cr Serge Thomann shares his thoughts on the decisions made by Council at its last meeting for 2025. Homelessness, Safety, Police Protocol and changes to the Local Laws are in many ways the result of a year long process.

In the hands of Theatre Works and Th’Unguarded Duncan, Shakespeare’s theatrical black sheep refracts carnage and calamity with caustic, comical bite. Olivia Di Grazia reviews Titus Andonicus playing at Theatre Works until 22 November.

Reviewer Olivia Di Grazia gives Bladderwrack a mighty whack with her fearless keyboard. But as she writes, ‘If the thought of a three-minute-long fart interlude makes you shiver your timbers, you won’t be disappointed.’