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- Lee Bemrose
It's masculine, it's tricky, there is showmanship, there is strength and finesse... you've seen the head spins and the arm spins and the angular weirdness before, but not on this level. It's break-dancing, Jim, but not as we know it.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The play answers that perennial question about fascism and totalitarianism –‘how could it happen?’
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- Jane Canaway
If Eddie Perfect's play The Beast was showing at Melbourne's Comedy Theatre for more than two weeks, I suspect it might attract the sort of cult following that sees fans bring water pistols and rice along to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Two Jews Walk Into a Theatre is so convulsively hilarious that I wanted to slap the knee of the person next to me, pinch their cheeks and roar in their face.
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- Vito Mattarelli
Curtains is a comedy musical whodunit, set backstage on a show that's having a pre-Broadway tryout (in Boston) and experiencing some major problems.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Enunciations is the first show by Raspberry Ripple Productions, the new theatre company for, by and about people with disabilities.
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- Liza Dezfouli
For a work with an underlying sexual theme this is an oddly unsexy ride, and it’s hard to care about the relationship stakes here.
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