Melbourne Reviews

Details: Darryl Emmerson; 30 April 2007

Opera Australia this year presents Dvorak’s Rusalka, a work rarely staged in this country and a welcome departure from the standard Italian or German repertoire.

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 29 April 2007

Sista She And The House Of The Holy Bootay

Sista She was in the house. And it certainly wasn’t a house that one would normally find a feminist comedic hip hop duo.

Details: Jan Chandler; 23 April 2007

The man who, rubber chicken on a pole, once took bemused Melburnians on an impromptu tour of unlikely places, leads his audience up the stairs at the Swiss Club singing Eidelweiss.

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 23 April 2007

Van De Stool is a catty, competitive, never-hit-the-big-note singer turned snake-oiled music therapist.

Details: Anna Lozynski; 23 April 2007

Andrea Powell delivers quick random humour embedded in a punchy and well crafted self-written script, as she talks to her audience about her personal experiences of modern dating including the many ‘nutjobs’ she has encountered.

Details: Nic Velissaris; 22 April 2007

A detective develops a fear of heights after a chase across city rooftops leads to a near fatal fall. It’s this weakness that will prevent him from saving the wife of a close friend from falling to her death from a bell tower. Sound familiar?

Details: Carol Middleton; 21 April 2007

This is an original and powerful production that blends history and realism with the fantastic and the romantic. Musically it is satisfying and uplifting. Dramatically, it grows from an uncertain opening to a lively and passionate second act.

Details: Lola MacMillan; 19 April 2007

If you think you are ready to enter the huffy, self-absorbed, playfully morose and simply idiotic world of simpleton-sibling rock, then enter the world of Berlin’s Otto and Astrid Rot.

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