contemporary Australian plays

A clever script, skilful direction and compassionate performances showcase the work of a brilliant new writer in Yirra Yaakin’s Cracked, says First Nations Emerging Critic Jacob Boehme

‘The wit of the performances, both physical and verbal, is riveting’: Alison Croggon on The Temple at Malthouse Theatre

A participatory play about climate change, Whale is desperately sad, says Robert Reid

Based on the story of the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, Jane Howard says that Hydra is most compelling in its intimacy

‘The contrast of these two women, their stories, their politics, their mythologies, goes begging’: Robert Reid on Stephen Sewell’s Arbus and West

Bedtime Stories for Girls at The Butterfly Club is an ‘acid reflection of the cartoonish femininity imposed on women’, says Robert Reid

‘Everything ties up beautifully, except it doesn’t quite’: New Review critic Sumudu Samarawickrama on Jane Bodie’s Lamb (A New Play with Songs)

Awkward, pained, anxious and agitated: things don’t go well for Louis. Robert Reid on 80 Minutes No Interval at Theatre Works

An oratorio of private pain: Alison Croggon reviews Lab Kelpie’s brilliant production of Mary Anne Butler’s Broken

‘None of this history is simple, just as nothing about gender is simple’: Alison Croggon on Rachel Perks’ and Bridget Balodis’ queer witches in Moral Panic