I went to the theatre just nine times this year, and it wasn’t hard to choose the three I enjoyed most. Leaving aside the splendid Flying Fruit Fly Circus, I pass over in silence what children’s theatre I saw, and I won’t name the play that turned out to have been written by a HSC student who had watched a lot of Derry Girls.
So here they are: Jodie Comer in the National Theatre Live production of a play that had its premiere years ago at Sydney’s minute Stables Theatre; a new production of an epic play about Sri Lanka, just as alive and engrossing in the Carriageworks as it was in the Sydney Town Hall; and a stunning one-woman piece in which Vaishnavi Suryaprakash tells a story in Bharatanatyam dance.
- Prima Facie (Suzie Miller 2019, seen in the National Theatre Live production)
- Counting and Cracking (S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack 2019, seen in Belvoir’s production at the Carriageworks)
- Nayika a Dancing Girl (Nithis Nagarajan and Liv Satchell 2023, at Belvoir Street Theatre)
Next: books!
Me fail? I fly! 