Highly energetic, frenetically so at times, and with the slapstick factor dialled up to eleven, The Comedy of Errors is possibly the most perfect play to showcase this extraordinary performance venue.
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For the uninitiated, Jersey Boys will hopefully come as something of a revelation. For those already in the know, this returning production is everything you could hope for and more – an absolute corker of a musical.
For those wishing to see an interesting intercultural take on Shakespeare’s classic, you could not possibly ask for a more engrossing venue to enjoy a collective theatrical experience than the Pop-up Globe.
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Horror combines intense soundscapes, unsettling video projections, prodigiously precise performance, ingenious lighting techniques, meticulous trick sets and props, all working together to create some very impressive illusions.
Lewis and Fleming have hit upon something special in diffusing the inadvertently misogynistic potential of a more plodding approach to modernisation, they have created something that feels both timely and timeless, of the moment yet cut very much from the classic’s cloth.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we all knew the rules for living? Or would it?
It starts in a sleazy hotel room. An older man enters with a much younger woman. From the moment they walk in, it’s uncomfortable.
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Digital lottery launches for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
From this Friday 11 January the Australian premiere production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will begin releasing 40 tickets for every performance of the play for $40 per part.