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Robyn Archer AO is a warm and natural performer; approachable and unpretentious. At the Arts Centre the other night she performed Que Reste T’il?, enjoying attention and loudly expressed moments of devotion from the loyal fans who have been following her for decades.
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Audiences all let us rejoice for plays like Australia Day; the script is golden soil that gives wealth for toil by labourers in the playground of the New Theatre.
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Music has the capacity to bring everyone together under the same flag; the same nation of appreciation: yes – we are all linked when the first strum of the guitar, banjo, ukelele, bass, fiddle (get the drift?) reaches our ears.
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Every so often a show comes along that defies your preconceptions and exceeds your expectations to such an extent that it leaves your head spinning.
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Twenty one years ago, Split Enz keyboardist Eddie Rayner rearranged some of his former band’s music and presented them in a collaboration with the NZ Symphony Orchestra. This week Rayner marked the anniversary of that show with a performance in Melbourne.
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What a Peter Pan is Vince Jones. Despite his Santa-like, snowy beard he steadfastly refuses to grow up. Imagine a man in his sixties referring to his “girlfriend”.
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What if your life was so bleak that you found light where only others found darkness? What if the passage into adulthood and your first experience of love was driven not by joy and romance, but by a desperate need for acceptance and protection?
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Burlesque by Force is persistently provocative, munificent and shrewd.