Pamela Rabe: ‘I find wandering up and down the aisles of Officeworks very calming’ The towering actor on original sin, being proud of her brain and going to supermarkets to decompress The Guardian - AU · Jun 5
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead review – the radical, angry heart of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel is missing Belvoir St Theatre, SydneyPamela Rabe is brilliant in this adaptation of the Nobel laureate’s novel, but its deeply felt sense of horror and grief is gone The Guardian - AU · Apr 13
A stage adaptation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is truly singular, and genuinely memorable Like all true visionaries, the English poet William Blake was light-years ahead of his time: a fierce critic of industrial modernity and a thinker deeply suspicious of any mindset that might turn the world into something to be dominated. His work also treats non-human life as morally significant, with abuse… The Conversation · Apr 9
New adaptation of Rebecca is visually haunting, but misses the core tensions of the original story Melbourne Theatre Company’s (MTC) latest offering is a striking adaptation of the 1938 gothic novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. The Conversation · Oct 6, 2025
Pamela Rabe shines in this hypnotic revival of Samuel Beckett’s classic play Happy Days Samuel Beckett is justly regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century – and unquestionably one of the most demanding. Few of his works illustrate this more clearly than Happy Days, first performed in 1961, and currently playing at the Sydney Theatre Company. The Conversation · May 12, 2025
Happy Days review – Pamela Rabe gives an aching performance in Samuel Beckett’s unrelenting play This is a particularly oppressive and tragic take on Beckett’s famous play, with fewer laughs than usual – making it a tough space to exist in for its run-time The Guardian - AU · May 11, 2025
Australia on stage: the best theatre, musicals, dance and opera of 2024 Guardian Australia critics pick out the best live stage experiences of the year The Guardian - AU · Dec 26, 2024
August: Osage County review – Pamela Rabe leads stellar cast in an American tragicomedy Belvoir Theatre, Sydney, then Perth in 2025Tracy Letts’ family drama, which sees three generations gather after the disappearance of their patriarch, is beautifully performed The Guardian - AU · Nov 15, 2024
Rebecca to feature in Melbourne Theatre Company line-up An adaptation of Rebecca will feature in the Melbourne Theatre Company's 2025 program, of which eight productions are premieres of Australian works. AAP · Sep 11, 2024
Seventeen review – seniors play teenagers in a spirited, elegiac meditation on youth Melbourne Theatre Company, Sumner theatreThe cast are uniformly excellent as raucous, vulnerable teens in Matthew Whittet’s play, which grapples with the mystifying allure and trap of memory The Guardian - AU · Jan 20, 2024