Melbourne Reviews
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
After two decades of impressing audiences around the globe, the Brighton, UK and Manhattan-based dance troupe known as Stomp has come back to Australian shores.
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- Simonne Michelle-Wells
Misogyny has been a constant presence in the Australian social and political landscape of late. Savages, a new play by playwright Patricia Cornelius, positions itself square in the middle of this discourse.
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- Liza Dezfouli
night maybe is a mysterious and evocative work from Stuck Pigs Squealing, a collaborative theatre group looking hard at the spaces between imagination and concrete reality, at indentity under threat.
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- Lee Bemrose
With tight performances and minimal set design, it packs a punch; I think Irish playwright Martin Crimp would be happy with this production.
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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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