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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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Fleet of foot, full of laughs and plenty of pathos, the play beats with the heart of a champion that unfurls to fur flying finale where the money’s on the bunny and a rudimentary redemption makes a claim.
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One afternoon following a rough day at school, Akio’s adventure begins when he and the girl of his dreams are sucked into a video game.
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Justin Burford doesn’t simply cover Cobain, he embodies him in a mimetic show which fuses storytelling and music to extraordinary effect.
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Spare Parts Puppet Theatre isn’t afraid to tackle the big subjects. Their current production, a stage adaptation by Peta Murray of Tim Winton’s short novel Blueback, takes a deep dive into the subjects of death, ecology and environmental protection. Is it too much for kids to handle? Not a chance.
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What do you do when you’ve outgrown Sesame Street, where each day is brought to you by a different letter of the alphabet with upmost certainty? You move to the ambiguous adult world of Avenue Q.
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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.
