AUDITORIUM

✮✮✮ Florian Zeller's The Father Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Damien Ryan André is getting on in years. He remains in good physical condition, but his mind is failing. The protagonist’s disintegrating memory in Florian Zeller’s internationally acclaimed play The Father brings us through a narrative that vacillates in its reliability. We are constantly disoriented, like its subject, confused by the incoherence of people, places and time. Without any dependable me

✮✮✮ Melba Hayes Theatre | Sydney music Johannes Luebbers book & lyrics Nicholas Christo directed by Wayne Harrison Dame Nellie Melba was the first Australian musician to have achieved international stardom, a legendary figure whose story provides inspiration not only to artists who dream of making it big, but also for women everywhere who know how it is to be told to tame their ambitions. She became wife and mother early in life, as was de rigueur in late nineteenth century,

✮✮✮✮ 1/2 Taylor Mac's Hir Belvoir St Theatre | Sydney directed by Anthea Williams Paige is suddenly emancipated. By a stroke of luck, her abusive husband Arnold has turned invalid, revealing a fortuitous way out of misery. She revels in her new freedom with a maniacal glee, and together with her now transgender son Max, their household is transformed to radically embrace every concept of anti-patriarchy that they come across. Taylor Mac’s Hir is a revenge story, centring on a