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- Liza Dezfouli
What Rhymes with Cars and Girls is an homage to an album of the same name by Tim Rogers. Playwright/director Aidan Fennessy wrote the play because he’s been in love with Rogers’s first solo album since it came out in 1999, playing it practically every day, apparently.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
The Lion King last ran at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre from 2005 to 2006. A decade later, Julie Taymor’s breathtakingly beautiful production, still proves that it can enchant the young and the young at heart alike.
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- Jan Chandler
If, like me, you've seen productions of Shakespeare that failed to hit the mark, be they traditional or contemporary, then rest assured this is not one of them.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
Laura Pausini, the best kept secret in the music industry. Pausini is known by millions of people in Latin America and Europe, but she is not a household name in the English speaking world... yet.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The Unspoken Word is Joe is a very funny work that messes with your head, a work that craps completely on theatrical conventions.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The Orchid and The Crow is a funny and theatrical approach by Daniel Tobias (the boy one of comedy duo Die Roten Punkte) based on his grapple with testicular cancer. That and a whole lot more.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Scotch + Soda is a perfectly dear performance, mostly family friendly but for some accidentally-on-purpose willy wobbling. Soft flopping schlongs are inherently comical and when one flops out unexpectedly, well that’s funnier still.
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