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Our Country's Good | Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe

Thu, 18 Mar 2010

This is a surprisingly first-rate production from this pro-am company.

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Ben Cousins: A Rock Opera | La Mama

Thu, 18 Mar 2010

Despite how much most of the audience tried to be amused, it clearly wasn't happening as we sat through one tired, obvious reference after another....

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Stockholm | Sydney Theatre Company and Frantic Assembly

Thu, 18 Mar 2010

We’ve all been there. Trapped in a potentially destructive relationship that is going nowhere. We stay because we can’t be bothered leaving, convincing ourselves that the good out-weighs the bad. Welcome to St...

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The Vagina Monologues | THAT Production Company

Thu, 18 Mar 2010

"I bet you're worried”. It’s the first line of The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler's groundbreaking, hugely successful mid-90’s play that got women talking about, thinking about and even looking at what was going on…down th...

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King Lear | Bell Shakespeare Company

Wed, 17 Mar 2010

Unfortunately, what we see instead is almost the very antithesis of the ethos of innovation and vitality upon which this company was founded. Sadly the production is, at best, pedestrian....

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It's a Jungle Out There | Martin del Amo

Tue, 16 Mar 2010

Del Amo has constructed a performance that is fairly simple in production but highly textured and multi-faceted in content. ...

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Toy Symphony | QTC & State Theatre Company of SA

Tue, 16 Mar 2010

From the rigid, unforgiving box set, to the delicate simplicity of its marvellous performers, to Michael Gow’s unassuming dialogue, the play is replete with this marvellous juxtaposition of natural simplicity with deep pathos....

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I Have A Date With Spring - The Musical

Mon, 15 Mar 2010

I Have a Date with Spring is charming in parts but a little cheesy in others, which I suspect would not be considered a criticism by the musical’s cr...

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The Bear & Angelique | Victorian Opera

Sun, 14 Mar 2010

The Bear/Angélique is a light double-bill on the theme of love.

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The Sound and the Fury | Elevator Repair Service

Sat, 13 Mar 2010

The Sound and the Fury excels in portraying a southern family, warts and all, but it is a discordant sound, one that is hard to follow....

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Richard III | Everyman Theatre

Fri, 12 Mar 2010

In Richard III, Shakespeare has left us one of the greatest challenges to the willing suspension of disbelief ever created....

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The Barber of Seville | Melbourne Opera

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

The last place I expected to hear a joke about the government's insulation scheme was in a performance of The Barber of Seville. But that was only one of many pleasant surprises in Melbourne Opera's latest production of Rossini's enduring classic....

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Josh Earl Vs. the Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book

Wed, 10 Mar 2010

Earl is a funny, self-deprecating and whimsical comedian but a lack of finesse and some first night jitters meant Earl’s comedy did not always rise to the occasion....

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Crisis is Born: Again | Meow Meow

Wed, 10 Mar 2010

Meow Meow is a very different kinda kitten, with teeth and claws, which put her at the cutting-edge of what might be called alternative, or indie, cabaret....

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The Snow Queen | theater simple

Tue, 9 Mar 2010

The Snow Queen is theatre of the imagination as a simple set and creative costumes aid a small band of actors to enact the fairy story penned so long ago by Hans Christian Anderson....

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This is a Play | theater simple

Tue, 9 Mar 2010

In This is a Play writer Daniel MacIvor sends up actors by amusingly exposing what they think of themselves and others while they are performing....

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Sammy J and Randy in Ricketts Lane

Mon, 8 Mar 2010

Long before Avenue Q hit our shores, Sammy J was already showing us puppets weren’t all cute and innocent.

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Broadway, Opera…and all that Jazz | Cabaret Latte

Mon, 8 Mar 2010

There’s no question that Cabaret Latte is a versatile group.

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