Review by Kate Gaul From the internationally award-winning team behind ORPHEUS  and sibling to the acclaimed HELIOS , comes SELENE  - unmistakably a work from the fertile imagination of Wright & Grainger, this time written with and placed - gloriously - in the hands of Megan Drury. The title gestures toward the Greek goddess of the moon, but like so much in this piece, it is a beautiful feint. The story centres instead on Selene’s daughter, Pandia - goddess of the full moon - though any...

Review by Kate Gaul Another astute and gorgeously calibrated piece of programming from The Substation, Possession  arrives like a flare in the dark: an operatic salon that is intimate in scale yet thunderous in ambition. Already sold out across its two-performance premiere, this second collaboration from mezzo-soprano Ruth Strutt, director Adam Player and pianist Michael Curtain makes a compelling case for a return season. The premise is electrifying. Three legendary queer historical figures...

Review by Kate Gaul Werewolf’s remount of They Will Be Kings  at The Loading Dock arrives not as a simple reprise of its 2025 premiere, but as a work that has deepened, tightened and found new voltage in front of an audience. There is something potent about a second life in theatre - the chance to refine intention, to sharpen rhythm, to listen to what the work has become. Under the direction of Kaz Therese, this is a production that understands itself more fully and dares to go further. At...