fortyfivedownstairs
Smokescreen review: smoke and mirrors theatre show in Melbourne
Smokescreen shows how tactics developed by the tobacco industry were used by the fossil fuel industry to delay action on…
Theatre review: Happy-Go-Wrong, fortyfivedownstairs
This exploration of chronic illness fuelled existential angst doesn’t make the leap from fringe festival circuit to the fortyfivedownstairs stage.
Theatre review: Endgames, fortyfivedownstairs
Three short works from modernist playwrights Chekhov, Beckett and Hibberd.
Theatre review: Boys on the Verge of Tears, fortyfivedownstairs
An exploration of identity and masculinity from youth to adulthood.
Theatre review: POTUS, fortyfivedownstairs
A satirical farce with a conceit and style very similar to 'Veep' that can’t quite compare.
Theatre reviews: Thirty-Six and Medium, midsumma festival
Two very different shows at midsumma festival.
Theatre review: ILARUN: The Cutting Comb, fortyfivedownstairs
A story of decolonised power based on a 18th century Jamaican matriarch.
Theatre review: Rhinoceros, fortyfivedownstairs
The second in the beast trilogy, 'Rhinoceros' is a rampaging success.
Theatre review: BAD BOY, fortyfivedownstairs
A one-person show exploring toxic masculinity and domestic abuse.
Theatre review: Hamlet, fortyfivedownstairs
A few directorial choices let down this otherwise fine contemporary interpretation of 'Hamlet'.