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- Liza Dezfouli
Red Stitch’s latest production is The River by British playwright Jez Butterworth, which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2012.
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- Carol Middleton
With her chestnut hair bleached and shorn, her buckled boots and her ockerish banter with the audience and musicians, Katie Noonan woos us with ordinariness. But, as soon as the first notes are struck and she opens her mouth to sing, we know we are in the presence of the divine.
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- Catherine Della Bosca
The play follows the day in the life of this disaffected youth on the fringe of society, as he tries to make sense of himself and his troubled upbringing.
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- Lee Bemrose
This debut production by Balloon Head Theatre of Noel Coward's classic romantic comedy was also my first experience of the play, and although I know that it is produced regularly to mostly glowing reviews, and although I am a sucker for a good romcom, I can't say I'm a fan of the play.
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- Jan Chandler
Bright World spans some eighty years of history, bringing together stories from two different continents, Europe and Australia, and two different cultures, Jewish and Aboriginal.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Geraldine Quinn's Spandex Ballet has been hosting Upfront, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s all-female gala night for three years now, and she's always good loud belty fun on this lively night of teasers by some of the strongest female performers at MICF.
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- Jane Canaway
Against a backdrop of headless floating chickens and in front of one of the biggest crowds of the whole Melbourne International Comedy Festival, a dozen raw comics took a five-minute stand for glory.
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