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- Eleanor Howlett
There’s nothing quite like an ensemble of exceptionally skilled circus artists to make one feel completely physically inadequate one minute, and then struck dumb with awe the next.
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- Jan Chandler
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- Vito Mattarelli
After the recent spate of musical revivals that have been rolled out in Melbourne, it is with open arms that we are able to welcome the Australian premiere of a 'new' musical – Once.
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- Vito Mattarelli
This Carrie is not the disaster that the history books have recorded and while far from perfect, holds enough talent and curiosity to hopefully entice Melbourne's music theatre buffs to go and check it out.
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- Vito Mattarelli
Melbourne's brand new music theatre company, The Collective, hurl themselves onto the local scene with a brave and challenging choice for their inaugural season – Parade.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Invitation to a Revolution is ‘Sir’ Rod’ Quantock’s return to Fringe after never becoming mainstream during (nearly) the last 20 years.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Comedy performer self-professed ‘oversharer’ Nicolette Minster has put together a show that wanders into the realm of objectum sexuals – people who fall in love with objects.
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