AUDITORIUM

✮✮✮✮ Nick Payne's Elegy Donmar Warehouse | London directed by Josie Rourke What is a life? Is it enough just to be alive and well, or do we need something else to make our lives more than just existence? These are some of the questions raised in Nick Payne’s latest play, Elegy. Lorna (Zoë Wanamaker) has a neurodegenerative disease which will kill her, unless she has the affected part of her brain removed – and with it every memory of her wife, Carrie (Barbara Flynn). ​ The pl

✮✮✮✮ Nick Payne's Constellations Darlinghurst Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Anthony Skuse The only constant in life is change, and its only certainty is death. Nick Payne’s Constellations is an exploration into the ways we create and tell stories. Through its inventive format of repetition and shifting perspectives, it relays a tale that is remarkably simple, but because of its adventurous format, the work that results is profound and thought-provoking. The play discus

✮✮✮ Nick Payne's Blurred Lines National Theatre | London directed by Carrie Cracknall I had a potential father-in-law who used to bark at me for using the term ‘actor’ for female performers. “You wouldn’t call a waitress ‘waiter’, would you? Men and women are different, don’t try and tell me they’re not.” I didn’t. They are different. The question is the difference in treatment. It only takes the opening of a newspaper to see the noxious effects of sexism across the globe. He