Retrograde review – newcomer Donné Ngabo is dazzling as Sidney Poitier in this taut drama (opens in new tab)

Melbourne Theatre Company, Arts Centre MelbourneRyan Calais Cameron’s play dramatises a real meeting the film star had in the 1950s that became a moral reckoningStrange things happen when an actor plays another, more famous actor. The outcome can be a bewildering sack of tics and mannerisms, or it can be mesmerising, like an actual communion with the dead. In Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of the UK playwright Ryan Calais Cameron’s taut three-hander Retrograde, the improbable task of ...