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- Chris Michelle-Wells
Lee Ranaldo is a gentleman. He fronts the stage looking a bit like someone's favourite uncle, with a slightly unruly silvery grey head of hair, and charms with an unprepossessing and appreciative manner, genuinely happy to play for you.
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- Nikki Spunde
From the beginning, there is a sense of cognitive dissonance. One wouldn't expect anything in-the-ordinary from Young Jean Lee though. One of the leading lights of New York fringe theatre, Lee is always experimental in her approach.
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- Chris Michelle-Wells
A ToL performance is a meeting of legends in light and sound, all the musicians well known and regarded in contemporary music (none more so than Ranaldo, of Sonic Youth), and Brakhage a giant of avant garde cinema.
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- Liza Dezfouli
In a refreshing celebration of the joy of language, Essex lad and performance poet Luke Wright has made a show out of urban stories, delivered with passion and aplomb.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Acrobatics is thrilling to watch and the young performers of Brisbane's CIRCA didn't disappoint. Just back from New York after touring, the troupe took to the (rather small) stage of the Festival Hub to perform Wunderacts, their new show.
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- Bron Batten
It was a devoted crowd that packed into the Recital Centre to watch An Evening With Billy Bragg, presented as part of the 2012 Melbourne Festival.
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