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- Vito Mattarelli
David Harris is well known for his leading roles in a number of stage musicals and already has a strong legion of fans.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Sans Hotel’s work is always worth seeing, if only to witness a range of performance styles and a unique and humorous take on society.
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- Liza Dezfouli
It’s an intensely felt and important work as there is still a stigma and much misunderstanding around the issue of people living with HIV.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Sanz’s comedy is observational/absurdist, gentle humour which is neither crude nor tacky, and gives audiences the gift of assuming they’re intelligent.
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- Lee Bemrose
The play opens with a woman prowling what appears to be a cell. Could be prison. Could be in a mental institution. She seems tormented, would like to not be here. Oddly, there is a knife inside her cell.
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- Nic Velissaris
Although death looms large over the entire play, the experience never becomes maudlin or depressing, instead the thrill of cheating death becomes the experience for the performer’s and audience alike.
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- Vito Mattarelli
Thirty years on and Atherden has brought Maggie back into our lives, in a live stage version starring another showbiz veteran – Noeline Brown, assuming the role of the memorable character.
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