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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
Last Orders! is set in the 1930s in a Parisian cabaret/cafe, where the waiters (the students), donning long aprons, are also struggling circus performers.
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- Nikki Spunde
Retro Futurismus presents an anarchic mash-up of imagery from dancing robots and forlorn astronauts, to soulful songstresses and gasping screen sirens. It is by turns hilarious, provocative and melancholy and more often that not wildly outlandish.
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- Jane Canaway
Combining straight-laced all-American ingénues, elements of Frankenstein, a bit of burlesque, some sci-fi and androgynous aliens – plus heaps of sexual tension and some excellent songs – how could you possibly go wrong?
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- Liza Dezfouli
This production is let down by an evenness in tone which robs it of necessary dramatic tension, and by an approach which is neither realist or heightened theatrically, opting for the former with break–out moments of symbolism.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Eagles Nest Theatre’s take on Arthur Miller’s famous play is performed in the church-like (and cold) interior of the Brunswick Scout Hall, which helps bring about the atmosphere of Puritan Salem in Massachusetts, where the famed witch-hunts took place in the late 17th century.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Gustavsen’s music makes you think of the Heart Sutra that states, ‘form is emptiness and emptiness is form’, as space plays such a major role in its compositional fabric.
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- Nikki Spunde
Ballet and fairies are a match made in heaven. Ballet seems the perfect art form for depicting fairies and fairies the perfect subject for showcasing ballet. From the moment The Dream starts, with a flutter of green skirts and petite wings as fairies flock the stage, it feels truly like a dream becoming real before your eyes.
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