Tap dancing, as a whole, would usually bring to mind a nostalgic air of old 1940’s Hollywood, featuring singers and dancers hoofing to high-energy numbers. Other than Australian Dein Perry’s West End hit ‘Hot Show Shuffle’, and his hit film and show ‘Tap Dogs’ a few years later; I had not seen a contemporary tap…
As I walk down the laneway of Meyer Place, I arrive at a mysterious dark door, which unbeknownst to me, leads up two flights of stairs to the Improv Conspiracy Theatre, a destination for lovers and students of improvisational comedy in Melbourne. I enter a dark, intimate theatre where smoke machines cast the room in…
Deep within the depths of the Motley Wherehaus I enter Vault 2 – a tiny rectangular 25-seat theatre encased in wall-to-walk black draping, already creating a dramatic, moody, and immersive chasm of theatrical bravery for me to embody. Against a black minimalist stage dimmed against green and crimson lighting, and flanked by white candles on…
Up the stairs of the multi-story landmark Clocktower building in Moonee Ponds, I come upon a theatre studio lit up in bright primary colours, complete with a giant matted floor, and two rows of seats at the back. With prams parked downstairs in the entrance hall, hoards of parents gladly seat themselves criss-crossed in these…
Tony: What have been the highlights of our rehearsal process so far? Nicole: The highlight of my experience so far in Honeymoon in Vegas? Is that I get to play Bea Singer, Jack’s unconventional mother – a brash, tough-is-love woman who loves her son fiercely, even from the grave. Where at every rehearsal I seemingly…