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- Liza Dezfouli
Hailing from a town called Openmouth Holler and with a sister who works as an ‘intimacy facilitator’, country singer Tina C is all about proudly reclaiming her white trash status.
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- Liza Dezfouli
I wanted to like this play – De Angelis is a peer. I wanted to identify with the characters and their stories, I wanted to laugh but I hated it. It felt very dated, the mother-daughter dynamic reminding me of conflicts I had with my mother forty years ago.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Couples is a tightly written and performed semi-naturalistic comedy with hilarious moments, not theatre that revels in innovation or heightened language.
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- Dr Daniela Kaleva
Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz or The Marksman (1821, Berlin) is a pivotal piece in German opera history and performance practice.
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- Jan Chandler
The live music, the set and the lighting are just right, never intrusive, always evocative; and then there is Capsis himself. He is a shapeshifter in body and voice.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Everybody raves about the famously self-styled, self-taught nuclear-fission/fusion that is Irish/French singer Camille O’Sullivan. She got a standing ovation the other night at the Fairfax.
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- Vito Mattarelli
In the early 90s (was it that long ago?) an unknown turned his student play into a low-budget film that took Australia and most of the world by storm. Now some 20 years later, the not-so-unknown Baz Luhrmann has brought that same story full circle and back to the stage.
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