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- Nikki Spunde
The stage is stark, simply chairs and spots of light. The audience seem a little tense. We are about to see a show about Iraq. The power of that name is enough; I don’t need to tell you what kind of heavy themes might lie in wait.
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- Nikki Spunde
So OK it isn’t the kind of genre-busting experimental frontier art piece that I’d normally think of as a true Fringe show but it is high quality comedy that works on wit, charm and intelligence.
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- Bron Batten
Dance as an art form is so often filled with lyrical portrayals of beauty, love and grace. It is not so often that it takes on the subjects of political regimes, violence and oppression.
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- Bron Batten
As the wine flowed so did the conversation around the many dinner tables – but these were stilted as more videos took over eating interludes, pausing any repartee mid sentence.
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- Nikki Spunde
Isango has taken the 220-year old opera and injected some serious life into it. It’s Mozart but there’s not a string section in sight, with the score rendered almost entirely through percussion and voice.
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- C.C. Williamson
Boldly directed by Imara Savage, Orphans is an excellently written play, running two hours without interval, and for the most part, intriguing.
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- Olympia Bowman-Derrick
Assembly is at once an exploration and a celebration of the possibilities of what can be achieved and created with collaboration, cooperation, and unity.
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