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- Jane Canaway
Bamford is the quiet, understated voice that will always offer the loudest challenge to inequality or injustice or hypocrisy.
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- Jane Canaway
It’s a super-slick, often hilarious romp of a tragedy yet MacDeth still manages to slow down and give pause to the more serious sections that deserve consideration.
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- Doug Knight
In any field there are the standards, the yardstick by which all others in that arena are measured and in musical theatre – many regard West Side Story as that benchmark.
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- Jane Canaway
Armed only with their wits and matching Elizabethan shirts, the Soothplayers will improvise a new, off-the-cuff play every night for the rest of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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- Jane Canaway
The Great Annual Debate is such a cornerstone of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival it’s easy to forget the format of debating was ever meant to be serious.
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- Jane Canaway
Steinberg opens with a long, graphic diatribe about dating as a 53-year-old serial divorcee with a history of drug use and adversity to working for a living.
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- Jane Canaway
This glorious chaos would never make it past the kill button of live TV, so if you really want to witness what might happen on Q&A if people starting telling the truth, get along to #Kwanda.
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- Jane Canaway
This young musical talent, who drops scientific facts like the Kardashians drop brand names, is way too smart to be a truly dizzy space cadet.
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