Melbourne Reviews
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- Liza Dezfouli
It’s fun but guilty fun: a campy extravaganza atop emotional depths employing a tricky balance of tone.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Anna Lall’s new play, Love Taps, deals with mateship, reverence for the game of AFL football, and masculinity.
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- Melita Pereira
The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a raw black comedy, always playing in the shadows of violence and grotesque honesty.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
Having featured on the 79th Annual Academy awards, and performing for Oprah Winfrey, Shadowland, simply put, is a fusion of shadow theatre, dance and acrobatics – but in actuality it is so much more.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
Yes, there are acrobatics, hula hoops and elaborate flips in the mix, but much like their other shows, what Circa presents always surpasses what one expects to see, when “circus arts” is mentioned.
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- Heather Bloom
With veteran dance stars Damien Welch & Marc Cassidy on the bill of Stephen Agisilaou’s latest creation The White Prince, expectations of the production are set very high.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
New Zealand’s national treasures, folk and country music singing activists and identical twin sisters, Jools and Lynda Topp have been performing together for over 30 years.
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