Welcome Home, Captain Fox! Samantha Cheh 04/03/2016 Welcome Home, Captain Fox! is a distinctly war-time play, set amidst a time when the world is whirring along to the paranoid beat of the Cold War, and...
Medea Samantha Cheh 04/10/2015 In the dark, dimly lit Almeida Theatre, silver light gleams off a kitchen tap—it's the only truly visible thing in the room before the play begins, an...
Macbeth Samantha Cheh 23/09/2015 The Scottish play is always a crowd pleaser: it is bloody, full of dark intent and supernatural hijinks, sensual murderesses, and carved out of the be...
Octagon Samantha Cheh 23/09/2015 Octagon is constructed beautifully, layered with meaning and a pure heart that pulses readily throughout the production. Nadia Latif’s direction is ti...
Lela & Co. Samantha Cheh 12/09/2015 There are few words that can aptly describe the entire feeling of watching Lela & Co. Words like "disturbing" and "eerie" come to mind, but also "...
Our Country’s Good Samantha Cheh 28/08/2015 Anchored by the full force of the National’s staging abilities, Our Country’s Good transports us to 1787, early in the long colonisation of Australia....
Macbeth in Cantonese Samantha Cheh 19/08/2015 To bear witness to Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio’s adaptation of Macbeth is an experience. The production has obvious overtones of Western minimalism b...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in New Orleans Samantha Cheh 14/08/2015 Set in the backyard swamps of Southern America, A Midsummer Night's Dream in New Orleans aspires to transplant the Bard's high energy comedy to a comp...
Splendour Samantha Cheh 10/08/2015 Women have almost always built their lives around the needs and wants of the men in their lives: housewives and mistresses, concubines, daughters, and...
Lesere Samantha Cheh 12/07/2015 Lacklustre and totally unsatisfying, Lesere fails to impress. Set in 1921, during the Interwar period, John and Jane Lesere have settled into an unexc...
