Sydney Reviews

Details: Anna Solar-Bassett; 29 October 2009

Josh Thomas makes his dorky dweebiness his schtick throughout the show and elaborates constantly on the fact that sex, drugs rock’n’roll wasn’t exactly his teenager experience.

Details: Anna Solar-Bassett; 27 October 2009

In all seriousness (or as seriously as you want to get when it's comedy), the Pajama Men are, quite simply, the absolute shiz.

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Matt Keegan Trio

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lloyd bradford (brad) syke
25 October 2009

Beyond empathic, there is a synergy here which falls little, if at all short of pure, spontaneous alchemy.

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Missing The Bus To David Jones | Theatre Kantanka

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lloyd bradford (brad) syke
25 October 2009

One day, notwithstanding the vigour we might now possess, or assert, you and I might well lapse into a social stratum to which we've no particular aspiration. The drooling class. We are all born to die. But it's a living death, perhaps, we fear most.

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How to Act Around Cops | Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Shaman Productions

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Augusta Supple
22 October 2009

Split into three acts the story follows awkward and wince-worthy encounters with a lone cop (Bryce Youngman) who is “new to the area.”

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Elvis Costello

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lloyd bradford (brad) syke
18 October 2009

If Elvis Presley was the pelvis of rock 'n' roll, then his latter-day namesake, Mr Costello, is surely the cerebral appendage.

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Brel with Chocolat | Micheline Van Hautem

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lloyd bradford (brad) syke
18 October 2009

Micheline has a truly beautiful voice: technically flawless, but, above all, one which is capable of expressing profound emotion, with profound power.

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Women Beware Women | NIDA

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Jack Teiwes
18 October 2009

NIDA’s 2009 graduating class production of Women Beware Women is a treat for those of us who rarely get to see local productions of works by either of the playwrights involved in this collaboration across the centuries.

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East is East | NIDA

Rabbit Hole | NIDA

Short Sweet+Song 2009

Brand Spanking New: Week Two | New Theatre

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