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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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- Vito Mattarelli
The Production Company has waited some time to bring a professional production back to Melbourne audiences, and have been rewarded with a healthy pre-opening Box Office success.
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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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