Melbourne Reviews
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- Liza Dezfouli
Cut the Sky is a beautiful, gentle work enjoying elegant moments expressing the joy of the living body.
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- Diane Stubbings
David Hare is one of those rare playwrights who is able to embed political ideas and arguments so deeply within a character you forget there’s a writer at work behind it all.
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- Catherine Della Bosca
For the Peanuts gang – Charlie, his sister Sally, Lucy, Schroeder, Linus and his best bud, Snoopy, it’s just an average day. A day made up of ordinary little moments. And therein, lies it appeal.
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- Diane Stubbings
Given the frequency over recent years of mass public killings, any staging of Scottish playwright David Greig’s The Events was going to resonate. This production, coming so soon after the Orlando shootings, touches on wounds that are particularly raw.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Caleb Lewis’s The Honey Bees is a well-structured and ambitious play, revolving around the story of a family apiary business in Western Australia failing due to bee colony collapse disorder, the causes of which remain mysterious.
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- Catherine Della Bosca
With passion and conviction, Deborah Cheetham spoke about “what an honour it was to sing and share these songs.” And for us, the audience, it was a privilege to witness such an uplifting, intimate performance of stories of connection, culture, family and resilience.
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- Jane Canaway
Maybe it’s the blend of old and new talent in the cast, or the influence of its guest director Davey but, returning to its roots a little, Circus Oz seems to have found new confidence and direction with this new show, and its creative juices appear to be in full flow.
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