Melbourne Reviews
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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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- Lee Bemrose
Darcy Kent as Thomas and Tilly Legge as Vanda are excellent. Not only are they comfortable and convincing in their roles, but their skill in switching roles is impeccable.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Strategy, a boldly effective new work by Judy Doubas, takes the defence of provocation to court.
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- Stephanie Johnson
Narration, soliloquies, ensemble performances, a cancer survivor telling her own story, and then the final breaking of the fourth wall with an audience member called up to share his experience. A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer is an eclectic, disjointed production.
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- Patrick Barton
Completely irreverent, absolutely hilarious, and socially pertinent.
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