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- Lee Bemrose
Something about this In Flagrante performance at The Butterfly Club intrigued. I Googled. I saw a weird clip with women in G-strings pretending to be horses to the accompaniment of some really quirky music and I thought, this is weird. I like weird; I'm going to check this out.
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- Annika Priest
As the debate rages on around the controversial teen TV show 13 Reasons Why, it’s no wonder that a 19th century equivalent is striking a chord and enjoying a remount by Monash Uni Student Theatre.
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- Heather Bloom
If there ever were a director equipped to handle the mammoth task of the 60th Anniversary production of My Fair Lady, it would have to be the great Dame Julie Andrews.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The two most revered jazz singers of Ethiopia sang with the band at high voltage – the love in the room was immense.
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- Catherine Della Bosca
“Follow the beat of the city and your life never goes off-key” but for three Indian migrants, who just can’t get the city’s rhythm right, Rashma N. Kalsie’s play, Melbourne Talam, dissects their plight in vivid, authentic detail.
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- Heather Bloom
I read that you can burn the same amount of calories watching a thriller as in a 30-minute run. If that’s true then, watching North of Eight’s Toyer gave me quite the workout.
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- April MacKay
So, no, this is not really a dance show, as some might expect. It would be more accurately classified as a piece of performance art (and a really good one at that).
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