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- Liza Dezfouli
This sweet play by young UK writer Tom Wells about a queer football team is a treat. Barely Athletic might not be the fittest team around but they’re doing their best to be proud.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Feat Theatre launched their performance space in Preston’s Oakover Road last Thursday night with a bizarre multi-dimensional play, Receivers which appears to be about one man’s drug-induced psychosis but you can never be quite sure.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Calpurnia Descending mourns the disappearance of true glamour and mystery (both of drag and of the stage and the silver screen) and pays homage to the time when stars were elusive, when the formidable females behind their public images remained private and unknowable.
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- Carol Middleton
Bernadette Robinson’s solo performance in Pennsylvania Avenue is a reprise, of sorts, of her 2010 show Songs for Nobodies, with the same creative team: writer Joanna Murray-Smith, director Simon Phillips and musical director Ian McDonald.
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- Jane Canaway
Imagine waking from a drugged sleep – there are voices and people but you’re not sure what’s going on or if any of it makes sense. A frog croaks – or was it someone pretending to be a frog?
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- Liza Dezfouli
Melbourne academic and playwright Enzo Condello’s ambitious play asks, and answers, the question: who was Shakespeare thinking of when he wrote such lines as ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’
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- Vito Mattarelli
I'll Eat You Last is a wonderful tribute to an amazing woman. It is funny, touching and without too much theatricality. It is a conversation with someone who sees the world as it is and is not afraid to voice an opinion.
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