Drama
Imagine the bastard son of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and a classic Star Trek episode, complete with ray-guns and cheesy love-interest. Now add a dancing chorus line of beautiful women and get everyone to sing "Great Balls of Fire" and the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations". Loudly. Slap one of the characters on roller-skates and you've got Michael Bloomfield's version of Bob Carlton's musical, based on the 1956 film of similar name....
Drama: More Drama
We don't get an awful lot of Australian drama over here. Obviously, there's "Neighbours" and "Home and Away" -- cultural landmarks that they are -- but ask most of us to name a major Australian playwright and you're into the "five famous Belgians" territory of silence. But maybe things are going to change, because Australian Joanna Murray-Smith's "Nightfall" is a very good play -- very English, too. ...