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Review Excerpts

The Changeling (2018) "the sharply edited text focuses with forensic clarity on the turbulent emotions driving an inexorable descent into psychotic mayhem". (NZ Herald)

Lysistrata (2015)  "This Hurstified Lysistrata is virile, cheeky, over-the-top, and completely delivers on its promise of entertainment. The most fun you can have in a theatre this winter". (Metro)

The Lady Killers (2015)  "Credit must also be gvien to Michael Hurst's seamless stunt choreography that ensures the quick, often brutish exchanges are lively and impactful with no trace of stylised cholces". (Theatreview)

Pericles: Prince of Tyre (2014) "an incredibly well-choreographed fight scene ... it might be worth the price of admission for that fight alone". (Lumiere Reader)

King Lear (2013)  "One presumes Harrow's achievement was greatly aided by the double-duty of Michael Hurst, and that his advice to her as behind-the-scenes directorial consultant was as acute as that of his on-stage Fool to Lear". (Listener)

No Holds Bard (2012) "The script is a cracker... beautifully interwoven, funny, poignant and tailored to Hurst's many talents. It provides a full range of vocal and physical challenges and allows him to give vent to his astonishing emotional depth . . . There are sections that Stoppard would be envious of . . . " (Theatreview; reviewed as Bard Day's Night)

The Waste Land (2011) "The poem is given a startling voice and vitality in a theatrical interpretation by director Michael Hurst". (Theatre Scenes)

Killer Joe (2009) "The ending... involves the most thrilling, and realistic fight scene I have seen... The play is worth going to just to see these final two minutes alone". (Craccum)

The Three Musketeers (1989)  "Credit as well to Michael Hurst who has choreographed the most exciting duel I've ever seen on stage... " (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The Three Musketeers (1987) "Hurst (D'Atragnan), a professional fencer, choreographed the fights and trained his collegues in the delicate art of not swashing when they should buckle." (The Age)

"I lost count of the number of sword fights, but they were always entertaining, often the entire stage given over to struggling figures all of whom seemed to be familiar with a number of dirty tricks not taught in fencing schools.   D'Artagnan's last desperate struggle with his mortal enemy, Rochefort, was so heart-thumpingly exciting it well deserved the audience's spontaneous round of applause." (Australian)  

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