That Guy who Watches Canberra Theatre

Thursday, 26 November 2020

Absurd Person Singular, Canberra Rep

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  Ayckbourn feels like one of those British writers that has perpetually been on local stages, but it’s actually been about 7 years since Ca...
Friday, 13 November 2020

Cursed!, Belvoir

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 It's good to get back to Belvoir, my theatre home away from home. While this isn't the best show they've done in the last few y...
Thursday, 17 September 2020

What the Butler Saw, Canberra Rep

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 "What the Butler Saw" is a curious beast - employing the traditional tropes and actions of a British sex-farce for a deeper look ...
Friday, 14 August 2020

Shows I wish Someone Would Do #1: Xanadu

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(I started drafting this early during the COVID lockdown but never finished it due to ... well, work and stuff - now people are doing stuff,...
Friday, 7 August 2020

Brighton Beach Memoirs, Canberra Rep, Theatre 3

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  Rep returns with a play set in roughly the same period as their last play pre-Covid, “Grapes of Wrath”, albeit at the opposite end of the ...
Sunday, 15 March 2020

Family Values, Griffin Theatre Company, Playhouse, Canberra Theatre.

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David Williamson arouses weird sensations in a lot of theatre critics. He has been an institution in Australian Theatre for 50 years, from ...
Saturday, 7 March 2020

American Song, Red Stitch Actors Theatre and Critical Stages Touring, The Q

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Joanna Murray-Smith's plays seem to rise and fall for me based on whether she's using a pre-existing character or not - in the plays...
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Writer about Canberra (And interstate) Theatre (and movies) with opinions and the desire to share them. Theoretically anonymous but most people I know already know who I am anyway. If you don't, hey, my name's Simon Tolhurst, I've been watching theatre for four decades and have done various things like production managing, crew and committee work for the last decade and a bit - and very occasionally shown up on stage, wrote a few short plays and directed a few short plays (one of my own, two of other peoples). And I read a lot. But I prefer to think myself as an audience member who happens to write things down. And has a bad tendency not to sub-edit any of it.
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