Melbourne Reviews
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- Lee Bemrose
I may not have known exactly WTF was going on, but I was constantly amused. There were loads of very funny lines, lots of wonderfully ridiculous characters and some truly absurd situations.
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- Heather Bloom
The Australian Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty is quite possibly the most perfect ballet I have ever witnessed. It is flawless.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The frightening collapse of bee colonies throughout the world is a clarion call to humanity and the impetus for an extraordinary performance, Dance of the Bee.
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- Gabriel Bergmoser
Detroit is packed full of laugh-out-loud funny moments and the characters are almost immediately likable, but flashes of anger and unstable behaviour ensure that no matter how hilarious things get there is always a slightly discomfiting undertone
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
If by some remote chance you have never heard of Finucane & Smith, and you should get the opportunity to experience their performance, prepare yourself for a mega sensory shake-up.
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- Carol Middleton
Perhaps the change in Pinter’s worldview reflected the sunnier zeitgeist of the 1970s and his own maturity, but the characters and plot of Betrayal certainly owed something to his own life circumstances.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Jo Lloyd’s Confusion for Three is almost like watching toddlers make the funny movements they make for the sheer hell of it.
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