VERY MOVING, VERY HUMAN, VERY FUNNY.Australia
Winner of the Helpmann Award (Australian equivalent of the Tony Award)
Sydney
A SURE-FOOTED TWO HANDER ... WARMLY ENGAGING ... IMPOSSIBLE TO RESIST! ... Alfieri is a dab hand at looking for and finding laughs in the bittersweet quick-step, tango, and waltz ... A DELIGHT! ... AN UNDOUBTED CROWD-PLEASER ... JOYOUS MOMENTS OF DELICACY AND GRACE ... SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS is a spirited plea for understanding and respect.
The tightly scripted dialogue is SHARP, WITTY, ENTERTAINING AND FILLED WITH PITHY OBSERVATIONS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION.
Like all successful playwrights, young New Yorker, Richard Alfieri is an acute observer of people. We identify with his characters. AN ABRASIVE, WISE-CRACKING SCRIPT ... A SHEER DELIGHT!
A VERY PROFOUND PIECE OF THEATRE. The ending is particularly SURPRISING AND TENDER. A TREMENDOUSLY FUNNY story full of love, hardship, and the lies that shape our identity.
A RARE TREAT ... A play about companionship, understanding and the hurt life can provide. It is THOUGHT-OUT, POWERFUL, AND UNDENIABLY BRILLIANT!
Melbourne
FEISTY AND FUNNY dialogue and a deliciously dysfunctional relationship ... The two characters elicit gasps and roars from the audience ... EXPLOSIVE AND HILARIOUS ... It is the ups and downs of the very unlikely and poignant relationship that makes the play unusual and MARVELOUS ... A HOT SHOW!
A wise, sassy, jive-talking script. It will strike a chord with anyone who has loved and lost. Alfieri's play is such a clever balance between confirming what we know and rocking it, gently, that we're happy to be led. We're in good hands. THIS IS ABOUT AS GOOD AS COMMERCIAL THEATRE GETS!
Brisbane
A play that touches on issues of prejudice, deceit and ignorance, and does so with flair ... SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS UNFOLDS WITH ALL THE GRACE OF THE WALTZ, THE PASSION OF THE TANGO AND THE FUN OF THE FOX-TROT. A PLEASURE TO WATCH!
This play is one OF THE MOST REFRESHING AND EXCITING PIECES OF ENTERTAINMENT TO HIT THE BRISBANE STAGE IN SOME TIME and has LAUGHS APLENTY with its witty, fast-paced dialogue and HILARIOUS ONE-LINERS ... This is a play with surprising depth. It is a play with very clever dialogue. The audience laughed long and loud ... It will make you cry in parts and it will give you an insight into what the theatre can be about.
THIS IS A SHOW TO LIFT YOUR HEART.