The Merchant of Venice, Bell Shakespeare Company, Melbourne Arts Centre, 30 July 2017. Directed by Anne-Louise Sarks Bell Reviewed by Penny Gay, The University of Sydney Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, a production which will tour many Australian towns and cities before concluding in Sydney in October, is the company’s first return to the play since an unremarkable version in […]
The Taming of the Shrew @ Sport for Jove, Seymour Centre, Sydney, 19 and 28 May 2016 Reviewed by Penny Gay, University of Sydney Sport for Jove’s founding director, Damien Ryan, first mounted this production in 2012, and it returned recently for a brief but welcome re-run. Rather than seeing it in an outer Sydney suburb, I […]
Sport for Jove. York Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney. Director Damien Ryan. 9 April 2014. Reviewed by Penny Gay Sport for Jove is a repertory company, devoted mainly to energetic and innovative Shakespeare productions, founded in 2009 by actors Damien Ryan and Terry Karabelas. The company have had great success from the get-go, generally playing in neglected out-of-Sydney areas, […]
Sport For Jove. Directed by Damien Ryan, York Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney, 3 April 2014. Reviewed by Penny Gay Paired defensively with the ever-popular Twelfth Night (see separate review), Sport for Jove’s fifteenth full-scale production needed no excuse – it was simply the best production of this ‘problem’ play I’ve ever seen. The only one, in short, to […]
Romeo and Juliet Sydney Theatre Company, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 1 November 2013. Review by Penny Gay. Kip Williams, one of the new generation of exploratory young theatre directors who are making waves in Sydney and Melbourne, was offered the chance to do his first Shakespeare play by the Sydney Theatre Company’s […]
Hamlet, Belvoir St, Sydney, Australia, 16 October 2013. Australian theatrical royalty abounds in this new production at the Belvoir St Theatre, one of Sydney’s most loved theatrical spaces. Robyn Nevin and John Gaden as Gertrude and Claudius bring a lifetime’s experience of the stage and complete ease with the language of classical drama. So too […]
