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- Emily Garrett
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- Jodi McAlister
Footprints on Water is a claustrophobic play. Set in a small town that people seem cursed to live in and cursed to never leave, it is a dark, ominous, and sometimes blackly funny look at religion, hysteria, hypocrisy, cruelty, identity, racism, beginnings, ends, and the apocalypse.
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- Helen Barry
Ovo, while not perhaps as perfect as it could hope to be, is still a tantalising trip for young and old alike, offering a serving of rarefied circus snippets that linger long after the insects have flown from the stage.
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- Jodi McAlister
The concept of A Trivial Pursuit is great but the execution is not. It has ideas and moments that I like (as well as a really good set), but the writing, direction, and acting could all use some improvement.
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- Jodi McAlister
It's humorous, heartwarming, heartbreaking (but only a little), and, most importantly, it's a lot of fun.
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- Trevar Alan Chilver
The characters are all very engaging, and the dialogue is every bit as sharp as Much Ado About Nothing. Don't think about it too much, and you'll have a ball.
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- lloyd bradford (brad) syke
Imagine the love-child of a menage a trois between, mmm, I don't know, maybe Sondheim, Midler & Minchin. You're getting close to the unpredictable versatility and prodigy of Collis' songwriting. She's a fine and powerful singer; she has comic sensibility that even transcends opening night nerves and can seamlessly shift from ridicule to rending of the heart. To top it all off, she's her very own musical director, banging a box with the kind of underlying finesse that suggests intensive formal training.
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