Melbourne Reviews
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- Liza Dezfouli
All for audience participation as long as it’s not you? Then you’ll love Onstage Dating, Bron Batten’s contribution to the Festival of Live Art.
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- Jan Chandler
This interpretation of The Outsider creates for its audience a tense, passionate, sometimes humourous and thought-provoking night of theatre.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Original and unsettling, this play knocks your socks and shoes off with its stark expression of human vulnerability and its shadow side, manipulation.
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- Catherine Della Bosca
This two-person play is challenging, heartbreaking and thought provoking – and I completely understand why it’s been both a critical and commercial success, with sell-out seasons in London, New York and Berlin.
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- Carol Middleton
Provocative, sexy and hilarious, British playwright Penelope Skinner’s play The Village Bike has burst on to the Australian stage in Red Stitch Theatre’s latest production.
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- Jane Canaway
Effie the Virgin Bride offers a blow-by-blow account of the mad Greek megastar’s wedding day.
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- Liza Dezfouli
A production of The Seagull embracing the comic elements of Chekhov’s play is always welcome. Black Apple Theatre have modernized The Seagull with a focus on the funny.
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