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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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- Liza Dezfouli
Take one excellent piano, an excellent pianist (Andrea Keller) to play it and a diva with enormous vocal talent and you’ve got everything you need for an afternoon to savour.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
The self described “boy band of magicians” who proclaim to use their powers for good instead of evil, successfully morphed their different styles into a hilarious and awe inspiring show.
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- Jan Chandler
The Wind in the Willows is a classic in more ways than one. Published in 1908 Kenneth Grahame's children's book has been read by generations of children and adapted on numerous occasions for stage, film, television and radio.
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- Eleanor Howlett
For, revenge is at the core of I, Malvolio and it comes subtly, and in many clever ways.
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- Heather Bloom
I would like to use the phrase “dissolved into madness” about the catastrophic carnage that takes place on the Lower Town Hall stage in the Melbourne Town Hall, but that would imply that there had been something more substantial of which to dissolve from.
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