AUDITORIUM

✮✮✮✮ Annie Baker's The Flick National Theatre | London directed by Sam Gold There is something unsettling about entering a theatre and finding yourself confronted with rows of empty seats, pretty similar to the ones you are sitting on, instead of the set stage you were expecting. The dingy cinema auditorium of Annie Baker’s Pulitzer-prize winning play feels less like a theatre set; rather more like a mirror, reflecting our own mundane lives back at us. This is unlike a tradit

✮✮✮ 1/2 Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Sarah Goodes We can all agree that everything is not quite coming up roses in the world today, with terrorists blowing up cities everywhere, and people waging war against one another, all in the name of race and religion. There is no denying that at the root of these catastrophes is hate. Hate that comes in a manner of guises and a range of justifications but ultimately it all boils down to the simple

✮✮✮✮ David Lindsey-Abaire's Good People Ensemble Theatre | Sydney directed by Mark Kilmurry When a baby is born, we want to think that the world is their oyster, and where they are today will have little bearing on where they may end up many years after. In David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, we meet two people with roots in the same rough part of town but whose lives have taken drastically different turns over time. One is enjoying the fruits of a meteoric rise up the socio-