AUDITORIUM

✮✮✮✮✮ Louis Nowra's The Golden Age Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Kip Williams At the time of The Golden Age‘s original première in 1985, we talked about multiculturalism. Thirty one years on, that buzzword has evolved into the contemporary concern for diversity, and a real need for societies to address pervasive inequities, whether they be surreptitious or conspicuous. Since the middle of the previous century, we have seen the rise of political agitation, most s

✮✮✮ 1/2 Kate Mulvany's Jasper Jones based on the novel by Craig Silvey Belvoir St Theatre | Sydney directed by Anne-Louise Sarks Laura is found dead, and although not wrapped in plastic, the stories in her town of Corrigan bear many similarities to those at David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. Burgeoning adolescence, secret lovers, hidden sanctuaries, sexual abuse and a creepy man that holds the key to mysteries. Jasper Jones acknowledges the debt it owes to Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mocki