Melbourne Reviews
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- Eleanor Howlett
Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo is super fun, for adults and kids alike. The audience are instructed upon entry that, given the Jurassic Park-like experience we’re about to have, the whole seating area is a Danger Zone.
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- Heather Bloom
Spurred on by the sell-out success of 2010/11 cabaret Yummy, Sally Bourne and Susan Ann Walker have created an outstanding new production.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Written in the early 90's, this story of sex, lies and journalism set in Melbourne and Manila is still relevant and punchy today.
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- Liza Dezfouli
US Belgian-based dancer/choreographer Eleanor Bauer creates a work of playful eloquence, humour, poignancy, ambivalence and honesty.
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- Jane Canaway
It’s a while since I’ve heard an audience gasp in shock at a character’s actions onstage but the depths of sibling bastardry portrayed in Felix Nobis’s Boy Out of The Country certainly hit the spot.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Robert Reid has taken the events surrounding the toppling of Kevin Rudd and made them into a play, the second of Five Pound Theatre's five week repertory season at The Owl and the Pussycat.
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- Heather Bloom
A new work by Madness and Tea, Jack and Jill has many hilarious moments, but the plot is slightly hit-and-miss and feels underdone at times.
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