contemporary Australian plays

Robert Reid continues his isolation reviews of Australian plays with Angela Fewster’s Black Crysanthemums

Kim Ho’s The Great Australian Play at Theatre Works is a post dramatic swing at some of Australia’s favourite colonial tropes. Historian and playwright Robert Reid unpicks some of its threads

Benjamin Law’s debut play Torch the Place gives mainstream Australian theatre the accessible kick up the ass it needs, says Cher Tan

Thigh Gap at La Mama tracks how the demands of patriarchy turn us into monsters, says Robert Reid

‘It’s a different beast altogether than Who’s Afraid of the Working Class, and not only because all the writers are older’: Alison Croggon on Anthem

A pastiche epic of the Australian and British theatre of the 70s with a dash of feminist politics as its core, The Other Place is neither wild nor smart enough, says Robert Reid

‘In this assertion of humanity lingers the spark that becomes revolution’: Robert Reid on Wild Cherries at La Mama

Emina Ashman’s debut play Make Me A Houri is a compelling and often hilarious picture of female desire in patriarchal society, says Alison Croggon

Hallowed Ground gives space to the unheard stories of women in the army, but Robert Reid says that the rhetoric of militarism suffuses every scene

The stage adaptation of Colin Thiele’s beloved book Storm Boy is “a carnival of theatrical colonialism and missed opportunities”, says Monique Grbec