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- Richard Cotter
The lights go down. The cicadas scream. The lights come up and we wait for the play to begin. Later, in the second act stricken by logorreah, we can’t wait for the play to end.
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- Doug Knight
Seizing this once in a career opportunity, the incredible creative forces behind this production of Phantom have triumphed and powerfully re-imagined one of musical theatres most enduring and recognisable works against a globally famous backdrop.
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- Richard Cotter
Suspense and surprise go south in North by Northwest, substituted with cheesy cheer east of Edam.
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- Richard Cotter
Like champagne that’s lost its chill, life can lose its thrill.
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- Richard Cotter
Frilly, flimsy and flippant, focusing on frivolity, the serious business of office politics, gender pay equality, sexual harassment and glass ceilings becomes an elusive facet.
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- Richard Cotter
Naive theatre meets high tech in The Umbilical Brothers’ production, The Distraction.
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- Richard Cotter
At What Cost? is a complex piece of work, full of righteous anger, full of family love.
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- Nicholas Routley
Wudjang: Not the Past is, among other things, a powerful wake-up call to non-indigenous Australians like me. After almost 250 years we shouldn’t need it, but we do.
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