Melbourne Reviews
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- Lee Bemrose
This performance by Kara Stacey Merrin is very short and very weird, deserving of a very short and very weird review.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The story deals with racism, misogyny and violence, allowing its young characters to grapple with these elements while retaining their lightness and integrity.
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- Heather Bloom
Avenue Q is a show for anyone who’s ever questioned the meaning of life, made irresponsible choices and wished to be a kid again.
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- Jane Canaway
If you don’t watch Channel 31 you might not have heard of Simon Taylor, but you will have heard of some of the shows he’s written for: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell.
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- Diane Stubbings
This adaptation by writer Anthony Weigh and director Matthew Lutton brings Marlowe’s play into the twenty-first century and positions the love story of Edward (here Ned) and Gaveston front and centre.
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- Liza Dezfouli
OpticNerve Performance Group has created an unashamedly beautiful production – an adaptation of George Eliot’s 1860 novel, The Mill on the Floss.
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- Jane Canaway
There's a piece of theatre history quietly being performed in suburban Melbourne and, if you're quick, you'll be able to rediscover this century-old Australian blockbuster.
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West Gate | Melbourne Theatre Company
At 11.50am on October 15 1970, 35 men fell to their death as their place of work gave way from under them.
Heathers The Musical
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This Glass Menagerie is top shelf, and while blessed with an extraordinary cast and the highest of production values, it will not meet with everyone’s measure of how this play should be staged.
Swan | Elf Lyons
Quirks of the source – and of the environment that sustains it – are cleanly exposed in a high-energy hour of physical comedy, delivered with moments of avian grace.
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It feels that the show hasn’t quite worked out what point it wants to make.
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Suzie Miller’s award-winning one-woman play, Prima Facie returns to Melbourne for a limited season.
The script is based on a true story, although this dramatisation can feel somewhat contrived, with important assertions not interrogated, and credibility stretched as a result.