one of the most original and surreal events ever to animate Melbourne Theatre. It played to packed trams for 14 weeks and has more than confirmed the viability of TheateWorks.
Jack Hibberd The Age Weekender
Suburban theatre is booming in Melbourne. A new idea...this theatre is a moving tram! The play has had such a tremendous success it is running indefinitely...
Carole Veitch Melbourne Herald
On a Friday evening at approximately 9.20 pm a green tram travelling east along Victoria Parade, Fitzroy narrowly missed colliding with two buses travelling in convoy south along Brunswick Street. Passengers in all vehicles were stunned but sustained no injuries except for a debilitating contortion of the facial muscles... for theatre goers a unique event. Only the drivers were real. Using chartered public transport, the Bus and Tram shows are exploring different relationships between actors and audiences by creating theatrical events in everyday environments... the usual division between audience and performance is challenged which gives rise to ambiguities that are confronting and often hilariously funny...
(Storming Mont Albert By Tram) has great tourist potential. It was phenomenally successful... I can see it becoming something like The Mousetrap was in London, a real tourist drawcard.
Don Dunstan (former premier of South Australia) The Age
A unique and intriguing production
Eastern Standard
Visitors from faster and trendier cities used to say there wasn't much fun at night in Melbourne. But not anymore. This year two hilarious night rides have grabbed the headlines. Storming Mont Albert By Tram is a sequence of amusing and startling "happenings". The commuters (audience) were starting to get the hang of the show and loving the diversion. But they weren't sure about the warring couple whose conversation sounded too real to be play-acting. None of it was real, but all of it was the sort of thing that COULD happen.
Laurie Landray Australasian Post
Innovative, a bizarre theatrical first: a play on a tram.
Eastern Standard
An inspired piece of lunacy. The production has enough scope for improvisation to accommodate the audience as actors. Nobody actually identifies themselves they simply start talking.
A unique repertory conception, a play on a specially hired green tram is a theatre highlight of Melbourne's Moomba festival. The show is built for laughs
Progress Press
Storming Mont Albert By Tram not only takes theatre out to the people it makes theatre out of the everyday environment. Sherrifs and Davies have created a complete event that is more than just being on a tram with a group of actors. The event they have created, like real-life, has a multiplicity of focus and the script is only a part of it; what really is at issue and of interest is the subversion of the boundaries between theatre and life. The tram show has done more for the public transport lobby than Travelcard ever could, and en route created original, genuinely popular theatre.
Suzanne Spunner Theatre Australia
The show must go on! The freewheeling Number 42 tram packed with caricatures of the tram travelling society, an expectant audience is one of the most popular shows playing anywhere in Australia.
Free Press
