Melbourne Reviews
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- Bron Batten
With his unique brand of observational humour, Demetri Martin has conquered stand up stages the world over.
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- Nikki Spunde
Class Clowns, the nationwide youth comedy competition run by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, came to its conclusion last Wednesday in a grand final at the Malthouse Theatre.
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- Dione Joseph
Tract is an inspired and collaborative execution of musical styles, vision and cultural exchange. Worthy endeavours and excellent intentions but did the overall performance actually suceed?
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- Suzie Hardgrave
This modern play tells the story of an academic marrying an Iraqi refugee in Australia, and converting to his way of life, to his land, completely in love, and further, to committing crimes of catastrophic proportions.
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- Heather Bloom
Far from the wholesome image they produced, Flowerchildren tells the darker side to The Mamas and the Papas story.
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- Heather Bloom
Playing homage to great screen actors the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Barbara Stanwyck, Two Femmes and a Fatale is a fabulous romp through the most glamorous of eras.
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- Nikki Spunde
Inner north indie theatre company Eagle’s Nest has been doing versions of Macbeth every year for four years now. The latest incarnation, playing on the old thespian superstition that the name of the play is cursed, is coyly titled m.
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