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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
After sell out seasons across the globe, where they baffled audiences with seemingly impossible physical feats, the group has temporarily set roots at the Malthouse Theatre.
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- C.C. Williamson
With the enhancement of visual beauty through live video manipulation by Thomas Pachoud, Proximity engages immediately with the voyeuristic nature of both human and camera, through the one thing we both share – a lens.
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- Jane Canaway
Hot Shoe Shuffle was written as a tribute to the jazz-age stars that brought glamour to dance musicals, and it is full of that era’s music, including Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Cab Calloway and Irving Berlin.
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- Lee Bemrose
If you've seen the trailers for Botanica and you've thought that it looks pretty wonderful and might be worth seeing, just go with that feeling and go see it.
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- C.C. Williamson
The tubes of light resemble a dismantled pipe organ, only the high pitch tubes in view. A church-like feeling emerges. The small, contained, underground space could easily be likened to a crypt or a mortuary.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Amadeo Astorino explores his fascination with the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald in this elegantly structured work.
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- Heather Bloom
Peter Schaffer’s award winning play Equus, delves within the more brutal aspect of obsessions and ponders whether conviction is more important than sanity.
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