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- Heather Bloom
McClements’ Cleopatra is a force to be reckoned with, an untamable spirit whose loyalty to her country is only matched by her love for the great Roman warrior Mark Antony (Johnny Carr).
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- Stephanie Johnson
Right Now is a play that leaves more questions than it poses as a young couple meets three imposing and eccentric neighbours. The line between fantasy and reality blurs in this theatre of the absurd.
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- Heather Bloom
Jack and the Beanstalk has all the classic makings of pantomime and is a delight for both children and adults.
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- Annika Priest
I think there’s something about Garfield that appeals to the gluttonous, Netflix-gorging lazybones in all of us. Who doesn’t have moments when heaven is eating, napping, eating, napping and more eating?
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- Annika Priest
In an age where our heads and screens are slowly morphing into one anthro-tech unit, role models for kids who encourage writing stories, reading and drawing are desperately in need.
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- Lee Bemrose
The stories he tells us, at their heart, aren't really funny stories. And yet he has us laughing along with him. He tells us of his broken relationships, job loss, the “cancery” death of his mother, his homelessness... the miserable list goes on.
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- Nikki Spunde
From the glamour of 1979's Scheherazade, in which dancers dressed in glittering gold Akira Isogawa designed skirts are accompanied by soaring operatic vocals, to the boisterous playfulness of Ellipse (2002), with its nod to Western hoe-down dancing, Murphy's startling range is on display.
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