REVIEWS
REVIEWS
Various reviews for various works. Links to the full reviews available via clicking on the images
The Homecoming - Reviewed by Whatstheshow
(Co-Director)
★★★★★
“Co-Directors, Lola Carlton and Bora Celebi have the actors working at the peak of their powers. The result is intense. We are gripped.”
“Kult Klassic Productions is an exciting new company, that deserves our patronage.”
— Linda Nathaniel
The Homecoming - Reviewed by Bacchus at the Theatre
(Co-Director)
★★★★
“Independent theatre company Kult Klassic aims to move and confront audiences, something they have certainly achieved with their debut work Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming.
“Kult Klassic’s debut production of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming is deeply confronting absurdist theatre.”
“Kult Klassic’s debut is a brilliant, confronting introduction: a production that lingers, raises questions and darkly entertains.”
-Natasha Ciesielski
— Linda Nathaniel
Enron - Reviewed by NOISE
(Actor, Videographer)
“In the arguably most impressive performance of the night, Ken Lay (Bora Celebi) is no class act; however, the actor certainly was in his characterisation of Lay, with his rendition bringing a boiling tension and shuddering drop of realism into a cast of exaggerated archetypes.”
— NOISE UNSW
WPIIA (Homo Homini Lupus) - Reviewed by NOISE
Also in the dorm is Berkay (Bora Celebi), a seemingly gentle soul who accepts John and Christian’s racist jabs as friendly banter, because the alternative is more painful.
Berkay was the character that stuck with me the most from this play, partly because of Celebi’s excellent performance, but also because he best encapsulated what I thought was the most interesting point of the show. Seeing how the character was shifted by those around him between the in-group and the out-group, threat and ally. It captured something truly fascinating about how such hierarchies can form in these conditions, and how much of themselves a person can sacrifice to avoid being pushed any further down on the ladder of society.
— NOISE UNSW
OLD TIMES - reviewed by BLITZ UNSW
(Director, Videographer)
“Staged in the black box theatre, Studio One, by director Bora Celebi and assistant director Ines S.L., Harold Pinter’s 1971 script, Old Times was completely unlike any of the shows I’ve seen in the student theatre sphere; it confronts you, headstrong.”
“Overall, Celebi and S.L.’s directorial feat, supported by producer Alicia Benson and assistant producer Alex Mouhtouris, was a success, and a brilliant start to NUTS’ 2025 theatre season.”
— BLITZ UNSW
OLD TIMES - Reviewed by NOISE UNSW
(Director, Videographer)
“It is the production design overall that makes this rendition of the play sparkle…Directors Bora Celebi and Ines S.L. handle a script that could have been performed fine without these elements, but with their addition is elevated, drawing out the strength of the writing with strong, measured direction.”
— NOISE UNSW
DRUNK SHAKESPEARE: MACBETH - Reviewed by NOISE UNSW
“The play felt very normal for the first half-hour or so, before the shots really began to kick in. If I didn’t know the title, I could have been fooled into believing it was a normal Shakespeare production; clearly well rehearsed, with a characteristic Shakespearean overperforming and posh accents being complimented by lighting, staging, costuming and set design that exceeded my expectations of student theatre.”
(Co-Director)
— NOISE UNSW
DRUNK SHAKESPEARE: MACBETH - Reviewed by BLITZ UNSW
“Produced by Sophie Burrows & Jacqueline Long and designed by Zoe Latta, Celebi and Whalland’s post-goth, contemporary, vaguely abstract vision was brought to life captivatingly in the intimate, immersive space that is Studio One. It truly was a captivating multi-sensory experience - the heavy fog, accompanied by the signature too-sweet smell of a fog machine, the stark red and black colour palette.”
(Co-Director)
“But, of course, this isn’t a regular Shakespeare! It’s Drunk! And like any good Drunk, the shenanigans ensued - the night I saw the show, Harris, Pierce, and Cronin’s Banquo were drinking, and by god was it entertaining!”
-BLITZ UNSW
