Melbourne Reviews
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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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- Liza Dezfouli
Spectacle and orchestra, a mash-up of punk, jazz, Balkan gypsy folk and big brassy carnival scores – it's all here in a show touting itself as 'Cold War served warm.'
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
Melbourne has been invaded by pirates. The Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta The Pirates of Penzance, that is.
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- Eleanor Howlett
All That Is Wrong is a gentle journey that packs a powerful punch. The limited season during the festival is a crying shame. Here’s hoping they’re back here again soon.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Minsk is ruled in the old-school soviet style, secret police, artistic, intellectual and cultural censorship, political repression, state executions even. None of the performers can work in Belarus and most are based elsewhere, predominantly the UK.
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