Production Reviews

ROADSKILLS Skegss by Cat Strom.Photo Credit: Troy Constable After a triumphant showing in this year’s triple j Hottest 100 and a stint touring the country this summer with Laneway Festival, Skegss hit the road once more in support of their debut ARIA #2 album My Own Mess. Skegss are an Australian surf music and garage…

VIDEO How To Shoot On A Submarine by Simon Davies, Director of Photography at SDDP. Step 1: Watch ‘Das Boot’. Step 2: Haze. Step 3: Thank Astera for making Titan Tubes! I recently wrapped on a short film, part of which was set on a submarine. We shot on the HMAS Otama, built in 1978…

VIDEO A Wicked Production by Cat Strom. As more and more video and projection technology is used in theatre, the role of the set designer is changing. While the technologies become cheaper and more readily available, shows have embraced the latest digital technology, to the point where video is now just one part of a…

ROADSKILLS FKA Twigs by Cat Strom.Photo Credits: Troy Constable FKA twigs’ visually intoxicating new show Magdalene is a bold reimagining of how music can be staged by a recording artist in the 21st century. Internationally acclaimed songwriter, director and dancer, FKA twigs performed a one-night only show at Carriageworks for Vivid Sydney 2019. An FKA…

OPERA   The Barber of Seville lights up New Zealand   by Jenny Barrett.   “From Betty Crocker to Rocky Horror, with a dash of Meatloaf and McEnroe, a splash of Split Enz and a quiff of Elvis” (Michael Hooper, Theatre Review) wouldn’t be the description that you would expect for a 200 year old…

ROADSKILLS   Post Malone by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: Troy Constable.   Post Malone is lauded as being the voice of a generation. Ask anyone over 40 years of age if they know him and you’d probably get a negative.   They wouldn’t know that last year’s album Beerbongs & Bentleys swiftly became one of…

THEATRE Bowie Does Brecht Lighting ‘Lazarus’   by Jason Allen. Photo Credit: Jeff Busby.   One of David Bowie’s final creative projects, the musical ‘Lazarus’ came to Melbourne’s Playhouse in May for its first Australian production. Multi-award winning lighting designer Paul Jackson worked with The Production Company and director Michael Kantor to bring the enigmatic…

ROADSKILLS   Human Nature by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: Troy Constable.   Australia’s most popular vocal group, Human Nature, celebrated 30 years of making music with a national tour entitled Little More Love Tour: A 30-Year Celebration Tour 2019.   In their 30-year career, Human Nature have sold more than 2.5 million albums, earned 27…