Melbourne Reviews
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- Stephanie Johnson
The Tiger Who Came to Tea is a roaring success when it comes to entertaining its young audience. This is no mean feat. Young children are a tough crowd.
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- Stephanie Johnson
Howzat! Melbourne Playback Theatre Company is on a winner with The Hat Trick its latest and final offering for the 2014 theatre season.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
Locally grown and internationally recognised Circus Oz are not known for their intimate shows, but since the recent move into their new permanent home in Collingwood, they have pitched a gorgeous old Spiegeltent and launched their latest show, Close to the Bone.
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- Liza Dezfouli
She’s an angry bird all right, with the stage persona of your classic foulmouthed Aussie pub comic with ‘balls and bite’ who descends into moments of almost insane rage.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The House of Yes affords Little Ones all the possibility of playing with the conventions and markers of American family culture, of subverting familiar tropes, gestures and the mores of middle-class life, in a concentrated lush style that is entirely their own.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
Bell’s fresh new production of Tosca is beautiful and it is painfully dark as well, incorporating love with tragedy, making for a perfect combination for an opera.
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- Liza Dezfouli
All of the pieces were well crafted and nicely written but without risky engagement with language or dramatic convention.
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