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- Vito Mattarelli
This lively revival of cult 80s musical Little Shop of Horrors is given an infectious spark of energy from a team of creative talent that delivers on most counts to a new audience wanting a fun experience at the theatre.
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- Catherine Della Bosca
Bad Jews, a somewhat provocatively titled, black comedy by US playwright, Joshua Harmon, is about identity, family and legacy.
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- Jan Chandler
Do you want to see what women are capable of when they are permitted to reveal themselves as strong characters who both instigate and carry the action? Then make a point of catching a performance of Shakespeare's Coriolanus at the Mechanics Intstutite in Brunswick until 8 May.
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- Eleanor Howlett
With their latest season, the Melbourne Theatre Company have taken this frisson-filled Mid-Summers eve, and made it into a multimedia exercise that just doesn’t quite satisfy.
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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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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.