Melbourne Reviews
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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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- Liza Dezfouli
Noises Off is a theatre lover's play, one of the funniest shows ever and enormously complicated with enough subtext to sink the Hesperus.
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- Heather Bloom
One-man band and triple threat Grant Busé invaded the Burlesque Bar in with his unique brand of musical comedy.
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- Trevar Alan Chilver
La Mama's Explorations series is a season of new and often experimental works that challenge theatrical boundaries and process and explore new ideas.
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- Carol Middleton
The Mountaintop, a mixture of motel room drama, fantasy, comedy and tragedy, is a surprising and powerful piece of theatre.
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