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- Nikki Spunde
It is the last night of AWME – the Australasian World Music Expo – and the Arts Centre’s Playhouse Theatre is packed for one of the expo’s most renowned international acts.
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- Vito Mattarelli
Bad Blood Blues is certainly a gripping and very interesting, if not perfect play.
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- Jane Canaway
Using the original transcripts, writers Andrea James and Giordano Nanni have distilled the essence of the story to create a 90-minute performance that gives a fascinating insight into a piece of Victoria’s history that bears further examination.
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- Nikki Spunde
Improvised theatre – “impro” or “improv” if you want to sound down with it – is usually associated with madcap sketch comedy. Thank God You’re Here and all that jazz. Impro Melbourne, however, is set to give that image a shake-down with Fat City.
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- Olympia Bowman-Derrick
Day One. A Hotel, Evening is a comedy of manners that uses wit and words to satirize, and comment on, middle-class middle-age infidelity.
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- Carol Middleton
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- Lee Bemrose
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- Heather Bloom
If you have loved, lost, hated or desired at any time of your life you will relate to Relations, and you will love it.
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