Melbourne Reviews
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- Heather Bloom
Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s The Tempest was a joyful production full of humor, music and solid performances from the entire ensemble.
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- Annika Priest
Nowhere else will a child be asked up on stage to burp on queue or fling Velcro baubles at two grown men dressed as grinning Christmas trees.
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- Annika Priest
Children have always loved the tradition of the Christmas themed ballet The Nutcracker, understandably: there’s magic, a toy soldier that comes alive, a Sugar Plum Fairy and a Kingdom of Sweets.
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- Nikki Spunde
Boylesque spectacular Briefs is in town and heating up the Melboune Arts Centre. A favourite of the festival touring circuit in Australia and recently having made waves in Europe, the show is a grab bag of athletic circus, steamy strip-tease and OTT drag.
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- Jane Canaway
She skips onto the stage, offers long rambling introductions to her songs as if chatting over coffee, mucks about doing ballet dance leaps, dedicates songs to her mum and forgets which key to play in. Missy Higgins is probably the antithesis of a diva superstar.
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- Carol Middleton
The 2014 translation by US playwright Annie Baker, with its use of current vocabulary and slang, gives the play a more contemporary feeling and greater relevance to twenty-first century audiences.
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- Annika Priest
Mash together one of the freshest comedies to hit Aussie TV in a long time, SBS’s Black Comedy, with one of the dodgiest cult films ever made, Showgirls, then chuck in a bit of South Park cartoonesque inanity for good measure, and you’ll get a fair picture of Blaque Showgirls.
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