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- Jan Chandler
From the moment he walked onto the stage at the Comedy Theatre the jokes and the laughter came thick and fast with barely a moment to spare for a gulp of water (on Wil's part) or a chance to catch your breath (on the part of the audience.
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- Liza Dezfouli
There’s wit in Trotsky and Friends but no real point to the goings-on so it comes across as being clever for the sake of it.
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- Liza Dezfouli
If you’ve reached an age where it seems like you’re the only person you know who hasn't settled down, the only one left without money in the bank, a house, a partner/kids or a proper career, and if you’re still wondering what you want to be when you grow up, then Arcade’s the woman for you.
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- Liza Dezfouli
First staged at the Edinburgh Festival in 2001, Splendour sees four women trapped together in one room of the house of a dictator, waiting for him to arrive for a photoshoot.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Claire Healy is a peach and so is her MICF cabaret show at The Butterfly Club, A Little Too Much Information.
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- Vito Mattarelli
Based closely on Dahl's book about a little girl genius who loves to read, this Matilda not only loves to read (amazingly for a 5-year old) but loves to tell stories.
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- Catherine Della Bosca
The drudgery of motherhood, its expectations and (often ensuing) isolation are serious universal themes scrutinised in this latest MTC production with both frankness and humour.
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