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Dashing and delightful is the experience at Queensland Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker. The sparkle and polish are enchanting for all ages and attention spans.
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Mack & Mabel is a bitter sweet dark romance between the megalomaniac movie maven and the popular actress who aspired to more varied work in feature films rather than the two reeler madcaps that made her fame.
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Rigged out like some underworld university don, this academia nut chastises the rabble for not properly harvesting souls, albeit allowing that most humans do not have the requisite evil for an express ticket to Hell. Oh for a Hitler, he laments.
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All men are mongrels, albeit ultimately loveable mutts, seems to be the message of Summer Rain, the Australian musical that has garnered something of a classic status since its origins, thirty years ago, as a commissioned piece by NIDA for its third year aspirant thespians to fuel their triple threats with.
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Parking the car at the Mullumbimby Bowlo, we decide to walk up to the Civic Hall to collect our tickets. The Cassettes come sliding and groovin’ toward us and we are momentarily caught up in the act, busting a few old ‘80s moves and not feeling out of place at all.
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The 2014 translation by US playwright Annie Baker, with its use of current vocabulary and slang, gives the play a more contemporary feeling and greater relevance to twenty-first century audiences.
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It’s one of those story within a story plots which charts the production of a musical version of Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ as well as the frisson on-and-off stage between Fred Graham, sung by Coleman-Wright and Lilli Vanessi played by Barker.
