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- Diane Stubbings
There are few people who haven’t indulged in the vicarious horrors and delights of listening to a good ghost story – it taps into something both childlike and primal within us – and that’s perhaps one of the reasons this play has captured the public’s imagination.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
Nude lays the ground for Marilyn’s life by focusing on her rocky childhood, her poor relationship with her mother, and her dreams of becoming famous, through short vignettes where actress Carina Wayne portrays Monroe as well as herself, in a sort of parallel.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
He told the audience about his memorable trip up and down the eastern coast back in 2008, which began in the very St Kilda, where he was now performing.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
Once upon time, not too long ago, calling someone a geek, or a nerd would have been an insult, lucky for us, today we live in a time where geeks rule the world, and scientists and astrophysicists are recognised and revered like movie stars.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
Who needs television soap operas when you can go to the mother of all drama, that of a honest-to-goodness Greek tragedy — Medea, with a seemingly simple plot, actually laden with juicy, scandalous, even insane twists and turns, which will appeal and shock at the same time.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Set is a gently amusing piece. It’s playful, enjoying its visual puns and the juxtaposition of everyone’s favourite love song against a literal interpretation of the words, a shift from the earlier dominant droning music.
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- Lee Bemrose
Epic. Dreamlike. Nightmarish. Disturbing. Confronting. Thrilling. Biblical. Poetic. Perfect theatre. Go see it.
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