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Details: 29 November 2006

Photo - Tracey Schramm

Despite teasing us with it’s near hits and misses The Bourgeois Gentleman never quite got off the ground.

Details: 27 November 2006

Photo - Ponch Hawkes

Based loosely on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Kiss Me Kate was Cole Porter’s most successful musical, sweeping the Tony Awards in 1949 and once again in 2000 following a Broadway revival.

Details: 23 November 2006

Photo - Sandra Rucins

Presented in an appealing format of nine vignettes, Almost, Maine sets the simultaneous interlocking love stories on a chilly Friday night in a mythical North American town.

Details: 23 November 2006

Red Stitch’s Hellbent is an adaptation of the seventeenth century play The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. It’s a revenge tragedy, a hysterical melodrama of Shakespearean proportions served up with an extra dollop of nastiness and it’s wonderful.

Details: 23 November 2006

Set on the eve of federation, the still current fears of colonial Australia are writ large in this play within a play within a play. The Malthouse Theatre, led by director Michael Kantor, revels in the so-bad-its-good gaudiness of pantomime with this latest production of Babes In The Wood,

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The Bourgeois Gentleman | Sydney Theatre Company

Kiss Me, Kate | Ballarat Arts Academy

Almost, Maine | Rubber Dog Productions

Hellbent | Red Stitch

Babes in the Wood | Malthouse Theatre