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The show will confirm your worst fears about the dark side of TV current affairs, and perhaps change your viewing habits forever. But it'll be worth it - go.
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The only consistent element is dissonance. Happiness is aggressive, sexuality is grotesque, pleasure is tainted and pain revelationary.
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Those fossils old enough to remember the cabaret heyday of Reg Livermore are likely to find a resonant nostalgia in Tommy Bradson. But while Reg played an unbelievably solid eight-month season at the Balmain Bijou in 1975, with Bradson it's a case of 'where've you been all our theatrical lives?' We like to think of ourselves, I suppose, as increasingly sophisticated and permissive, yet Reg was rockin' 'n' shockin' the mainstream in a way that's rarely possible today. So, in short, we're bloody lucky to have Bradson and Sweet Sixteen (or The Birthday Party Massacre).
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Dating The World, all in all, asks us to embrace and celebrate difference. And now's always a good time to suggest that. But you don't have to think about any of the 'deeper' messages. It's good to know they're there. But you can just laugh till your abs tighten. It's the best exercise I know of. And Sheehan and Beech, in tandem, are one of the best laughter machines.
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There are a number of distinctive characteristics of the man and his music that set him apart. The first is a gentle, quietly spoken, warm, sincere nature, in person and on stage. It's palpable and undeniable. It's abundantly evident he lives, breathes and reveres music and for him, it's a spiritual, life-giving, life-defining force; a source of good and meaning. His eminence, Mike Nock, has described Ginsburg's playing as 'heartfelt' and it's an eloquent summation. His compositions are imbued with humility, fragile beauty, inspiration, harmony & passion.
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Damian Callinan has his finger on the socio-political pulse and a firm hand on the vernacular. Callinan mightn't be a trained actor but, issues of diction aside, he's a gift. In fact, he manages something I don't recall having seen before and he manages it extremely well: taking the best from the world of stand-up (improvisation) and fusing it with the best from the world of acting (characterisation). This is quite something.
