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- Catherine Della Bosca
Buyer and Cellar owes its success to the multi-talented, multi-character actor, Ash Flanders, who turns in a beautifully crafted performance – charming, impish, convincing and nuanced for all five characters that he inhabits.
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- Vito Mattarelli
Melbourne (and soon Sydney) audiences are truly fortunate to have the opportunity to see and experience yet another Broadway legend at the peak of their career – this time the amazingly talented Audra McDonald.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The performances overall are meaty and grounded and provide for a night of, if not riveting theatre then enough strong moments to satisfy.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Here’s what you get at a Laura Marling concert: storytelling, through long songs, some almost 15 minutes in length, with complex lyrics, and tunes that shift in tone and tempo.
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- Jane Canaway
Has it really been 40 years since the wild-looking woman out-cooled dudes like the Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, extending the bridge they had started building between rock and punk?
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- Carol Middleton
As soon as Tina Benko seizes the microphone to announce, ‘My name is Desdemona,’ she has us by the throat.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The performance by Okpokwasili as a raw and generous as anything you’ll ever see.
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- Simon Piening
Peeping Tom have created an engaging work, with a mix of humour, violence, whimsy and menace.
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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.