Noises Off – Barefoot Review
Reviewed by Samela Harris Make ‘em laugh. It’s a showbiz catch-cry. For comedic actors, audience laughter is a veritable drug. But, high comedy is the hardest of the arts, not only in the need [...]
Reviewed by Samela Harris Make ‘em laugh. It’s a showbiz catch-cry. For comedic actors, audience laughter is a veritable drug. But, high comedy is the hardest of the arts, not only in the need [...]
Reviewed by Barry Lenny The Adelaide Repertory Theatre Society is presenting Michael Frayn’s 1982 three-act farce, Noises Off, about the goings on behind the scenes of a production of a [...]
Reviewed By Daniel Barnett Noises Off, Michael Frayn’s beloved 1980s farce, kept the Arts Theatre in raucous laughter last night as the Adelaide Repertory Theatre’s production hits all the right [...]
Reviewed by Brian Godfrey They say that laughter is the best medicine. Well, if that is true then the Rep’s latest production, Noises Off, has cornered the pharmaceutical industry with [...]
Review by Fran Edwards Oscar Wilde’s witty drawing room comedy is as relevant today as when it was first performed in 1895. True, manners may have changed and few of society’s norms, but people [...]
Review by Mark Wickett ‘Truth is a very complex thing,’ says Sir Robert Chiltern in Oscar Wilde’s play, and Matthew Chapman’s interpretation does more than entertain in this study on truth. This [...]
Review by Kym Clayton The Adelaide Rep’s production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband is stylish. All production elements are well designed and executed, and director Matthew Chapman [...]
Review by Jude Hines Writer of more than 30 plays and screenplays, Neil Simon received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer, and his 27th play, Laughter on the 23rd [...]
Review by David Smith Neil Simon based this play on his experience as a writer on the 1950s television comedy series Your Show Of Shows starring Sid Caesar. True to its origins, the script, [...]
Review by Steve Davis There is something prophetic and ironic about The Adelaide Repertory Theatre staging a production of Laughter On The 23rd Floor on the eve of 2023. The play is set [...]
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