Production Gallery + reviews | Savages
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ SAVAGES OPENS AN INSTANT HIT ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Patricia Cornelius' SAVAGES opens to glowing reviews from all angles as it cruises into it's second and final week on the Theatre Works stage. Take a look through the full review and rehearsal gallery, and make sure you don't miss this hit before it takes its final voyage on this Saturday.
★★★★★
“What’s it like with a female-identifying and nonbinary cast? Well, it’s funnier, sadder, and even more disturbing, crafting a paradoxical authenticity from the artifice of cross-gendered performance”
“It’s a winding-up that will be unwound to piercing effect in the play’s final moments, well after all the banter and bullying, the competitiveness and camaraderie of these larrikin figures have been stripped bare. Hardcore misogyny, and the bodies it victimises, are revealed simultaneously – a potent moment of truth that left the opening night audience in stunned silence”
“It’s brilliant theatre at every level”
- The Age
★★★★★
“Patricia Cornelius has written a superbly funny work”
“The production is also blessed with masterful set design”
“Masterful acting”
“funny, painful and occasionally horrifying”
“Aya, Nicci Wilks, Laila Thaker and Zoe Boeson are astonishing in the roles; disappearing into the parts and painting a vision that is both desperately sad and horribly frightening”
“In a time when intimate partner violence is a scourge across this country, Savages remains essential theatre”
“A remarkable play in an extraordinary production”
“The direction is exhilarating”
“More than a decade after Savages was first presented, Petkovski’s interpretation shows why Cornelius’ play still has bite”
“Thirteen years after Savages was first staged, its provocations remain uncomfortably immediate. Petkovski’s sensational direction meets the ferocity of Cornelius’s text without softening its ugliness or simplifying its contradictions. His production is playful, funny and visually seductive; it is also extraordinarily controlled in the slow tightening of its grip”
“Uncanny, playful and increasingly menacing, Kitan Petkovski’s masterful production of Patricia Cornelius’s Savages watches camaraderie slowly curdle into the ugliest form of male entitlement.”
"Savages is strong, unapologetic theatre that resonates and reviles"
SAVAGES plays until 12 September at Theatre Works.
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