WEEKEND NOTES ★★★★★
”You need to beg, borrow, or steal a ticket to see this show!”

”This Genuine Moment shows great writing and human understanding by Jacob Parker, and the acting of Tom Dawson and Ilai Swindells is outstanding.”

TIME OUT ★★★★
“‘This Genuine Moment’ is a “magic moment of theatre” for Midsumma".”

“Tonazzi is confident enough to remove most distraction from Parker's nimble dialogue. Indeed, so stripped back is the show that when a moment’s well-deployed music interjects, it tilts the audience over the play’s central faultline. What presents at first as comic relief, emotionally unseats.”

“It's a nice beat that could so easily have been overdone, and a testament to the restrained direction of Hayden Tonazzi. The body betrays what the heart says.”

STAGE WHISPERS
“Here is a ‘coming out’ drama that is far superior to so many others in its honesty, in the quality of the writing, and in the complexity of the characters. It’s also blessed here by the subtlety of Hayden Tonazzi’s direction and the performances of Ilai Swindells and Tom Dawson.”

“A program note tells us that This Genuine Moment ‘foregoes camp tropes and sexual humour for awkward and brutal honesty about how we, as queer people, discover the life we want to live.’ For once, a program note is absolutely accurate.”

THEATRE TRAVELS
“This Genuine Moment is the best play I’ve seen this year; from the very first moment, you know you’re in good hands. It’s funny, honest, and moving, full of real human moments and struggles. This is the kind of theatre I adore.”

“Tonazzi does a terrific job of directing, cleverly using the space and movement in the bed to physically progress the plot of the character-driven play. The rhythm and pacing of the dialogue and physicality are perfected under Tonazzi.”

“The two-hander is brilliantly performed by Tom Dawson and Ilai Swindells. Dawson and Swindells complement each other beautifully on stage, working together so strongly in moments of vulnerability and individually in moments of monologue.”