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- Catherine Della Bosca
Penned by the multi-talented Eddie Perfect, Vivid White, explores the modern day Melbourne real estate market, with erudition and devastatingly witty and warped musical numbers.
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- Lee Bemrose
Redshift is the 2017 offering from Chunky Move's Next Move program, a program that for 10 years now has been commissioning and producing the work of the next generation of dance makers.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Robyn Archer AO is a warm and natural performer; approachable and unpretentious. At the Arts Centre the other night she performed Que Reste T’il?, enjoying attention and loudly expressed moments of devotion from the loyal fans who have been following her for decades.
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- Jane Canaway
Twenty one years ago, Split Enz keyboardist Eddie Rayner rearranged some of his former band’s music and presented them in a collaboration with the NZ Symphony Orchestra. This week Rayner marked the anniversary of that show with a performance in Melbourne.
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- Catherine Della Bosca
“In a world built for one” Bambert lives alone in his attic – immersed in a world with characters from his stories.
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- Annika Priest
When a trio of successful and well respected female Melbourne musicians team up for a one off gig to “deconstruct pop music”, it’s hard not to be intrigued, especially when it’s set within the hushed and carved confines of the Elisabeth Murdoch hall.
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- Lee Bemrose
How this came to be a work of dance performance is one of those rare miracles of creativity that you close your eyes and give thanks to the God you don’t believe in.
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- Lee Bemrose
In existence since the early 80’s, MWT declares itself proudly unfunded, relying instead on its supporters, with its lack of government funding freeing it up to do their thing.
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