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- Vito Mattarelli
Celebrating Victorian Opera's 10th anniversary year, and completing their Sondheim trilogy, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Musical Thriller (whew!), is a welcome addition to the list.
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- Liza Dezfouli
TBC Theatre takes on Irish writer Mark O’Rowe’s gritty play, Made in China, a story about three men caught up in violence, manipulation and one-upmanship.
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- Vito Mattarelli
West Side Story, a Broadway classic, was suitably selected as the milestone production, and judging by the performance I saw, the Company has managed to deliver a wonderful show.
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- Lee Bemrose
There is real drama and tension as the three main characters become locked in a psychological battle for what they want or need out of this situation, and there is an air of creepiness or menace as well.
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- Catherine Della Bosca
In a return season of Theatre Beating’s, Magic Chicken, the audience follows the adventures (or should that be misadventures?) of Ethel, a golden egg laying chicken, after she stumbles across two bumbling chefs in a run-down cartoon kitchen & bistro whilst being hotly pursued by the Evil Eric.
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- Jan Chandler
Saltwater and Letters Home, with their contrasting approaches to theatre and story-telling, are an entertaining, moving and thought provoking double bill.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
The Melbourne Arts Centre has been hosting the Sound of Music Sing-A-Long for a number of years, this year it was held at Hamer Hall, and although most of us are no Julie Andrews, or for that matter Lady Gaga, the auditorium was filled with “the sound of music” and it was simply beautiful.
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