Jo Higgins - Belvoir: Capricornia
What Thomson's set creates is an immediate sense of the epic size of Nowra's play and a literal illustration of how small we as individuals are against the enormous backdrop that is our country, our landscape and our national identity. Read more...

Alison Croggon: VCA: The Lower Depths
It is performed with great brio, which means the first half flies by; and the cast even manages to make a decent fist of the rambling last act. Read more...

Rhiannon Sawyer - SDC: The Director's Cut
The stage was bare but for a floating backdrop and this meant that for the first time in the night the performers could use the entire stage, allowing the movement to burst out of its previous confines. Read more...

Alison Croggon - Trades Hall: Charcot
The script is very minimal, and adequate to its modest purposes: but it possesses little of the imaginative or lyrical excess that could really get under the skin of the themes it touches on. Read more...