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- Liza Dezfouli
The Melbourne International Jazz Festival offered up a treat last Friday: Chris Dave and the Drumhedz. The crowd at 170 Russell was the beanie and baseball cap crowd as opposed to the beret and porkpie hat crowd you see at Jazzlab.
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- Danielle Marrs
The Substation in Newport has an industrial history which has been minimally (and respectfully) refurbished as an art space, that provided the ideal venue for Three Solos.
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- Annika Priest
While a lot has changed on the outside since Lorca’s time, socially and politically, not a lot has changed on the inside, where the patriarchy still rules with an iron fist.
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- Doug Knight
From one of Australia’s most acclaimed playwrights, Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre's description of Joanna Murray-Smiths’ Fury as, ‘a scintillating, often hilarious and profoundly provocative work,’ feels somewhat understated for failing to mention “Seat flinching discomfort.”
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- Liza Dezfouli
‘Fearless’ hardly begins to describe this evening’s phenomena but it’s a good start.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The Melbourne International Jazz Festival opened at The Jazzlab with Paul Grabowsky’s The Gravity Project, so named because different musical traditions and forms are held together by mutual attraction.
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- Danielle Marrs
I walked into the State Theatre with high expectations for Oklahoma based on my previous experience with The Production Company’s work, and they certainly delivered with this production.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Slapstick and verbal wit pulled together with impeccable direction and comic timing make for a witty piss take of Melbourne’s literary world, so familiar to its audience.
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