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- Liza Dezfouli
UK writer Paddy Campbell is enjoying a monster success with his first full-length play, Wet House. Red Stitch Actors Theatre brings us the Melbourne premiere and it's a winner.
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- Vito Mattarelli
Well it may not be important, but this wonderful collection of personal anecdotes and passages from her favourite writers is yet another masterful performance from one of our most cherished performers.
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- Jane Canaway
This simple yet intensely layered performance deserves to be one of the stand-out shows of this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
For just a little while, Hamer Hall echoed with the band’s contagious gypsy-style wedding music and the audience found it impossible to sit quietly in their seats.
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- Liza Dezfouli
In Body of Work, Eke uses video cameras to create multiple repeating images of herself, looping segments of choreography upon themselves, creating an increasingly vaster whole with an intense focus on the shift from one moment to another.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Motion Picture by choreographer Lucy Guerin, is a film in dance, a dance to a film, a dance in response to a film.
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- Heather Bloom
Romance, betrayal, death and redemption, it has all the makings of a modern day soap opera and yet The Australian Ballet’s latest production of Giselle is a throwback to the Great Romantic Ballets of the 19th Century.
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- Heather Bloom
Not your typical romantic European ballet, The Red Dress brims with emotive dance, gentle grace and a large amount of humour.
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