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- Nikki Spunde
The little stage at the Butterfly Club has been the setting for many things wonderful and Jessica McKerlie’s Gender Spanner is definitely one of these.
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- Vito Mattarelli
Phil Scott has been performing for some time, and his experience shows here, both in his musical ability and in his comic timing and story-tellng.
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- Catherine Della Bosca
In a return season of But Wait…There’s More, Circus Oz has pitched its state-of-the-art Big Top at Birrarung Marr with a show incorporating elements of rock n’ roll, cabaret, theatre and satire fused with the skills and tricks of traditional circus.
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- Lee Bemrose
So there is no linear narrative. No story, as such, but perhaps many micro stories, all involving questions of love and information, more of the latter than the former, I think.
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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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