Melbourne Reviews

Details: Paul Kooperman; 12 November 2007

Remember the name Karin Muiznieks. Learn how to spell it, pronounce it and when you see it on a poster (or billboard), go and see her show. She is a star in the making with talent that literally bursts out of every seam.

Details: Jan Chandler; 11 November 2007

John Howard’s Farewell Party | Rod Quantock

In John Howard's Farewell Party Quantock, in his inimitable way, takes his audience on a friendly and rambling journey through his memories of the Howard years.

Details: Jan Chandler; 10 November 2007

In The Chosen Vessel, Melbourne Company Petty Traffikers has brought three short stories by Barbara Baynton, a contemporary of Henry Lawson, to the stage.

Details: Anna Lozynski; 06 November 2007

Flamenco aficionados beware. Gala Flamenca is a polished and provocative showcase of everything truly, madly and deeply flamenco.

Details: Paul Kooperman; 06 November 2007

Reuben Krum is a racist, fascist, socialist, Nazi-loving, Aryan-looking, Jewish, gerbil-loving cabaret comedian out to entertain and make people laugh and he certainly succeeds.

Details: Paul Kooperman; 31 October 2007

Bumtown is described as ‘an epic trash musical devised by two trash-talking homos on a kamikaze mission to take out Australian Theatre’.

Details: Vito Mattarelli; 29 October 2007

Even if you have never experienced La Clique, few Melbournians could honestly say that they have never heard of it - such is its legend.

Details: Anna Lozynski; 28 October 2007

In this 2007 version, Ibsen's work is staged in a converted designer warehouse. Nora is in one scene, dressed in a fluoro orange t-shirt with ‘Young, Fab & Broke.’

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