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- Emily Shaddick
Although The Hunting of the Snark at the Sydney Opera House has borrowed some inspiration from the original story, it is hard to compare the two.
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- Marika Bryant
Winter in Bellingen: what better way to celebrate the season than with hot music and warm encounters of every kind.
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- Emily Shaddick
Oscar Wilde’s timeless stories are brought to life in this not to be missed production of Wilde Creatures.
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- Nicholas Routley
Musically this performance was an unmitigated delight. But in my opinion the same could not be said of the staging. Lindy Hume is one of Australia’s most well-known, versatile, and lively directors, but even she couldn’t coax drama out of this work.
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- Jack Teiwes
For anyone who has dealt with the deterioration of a parental figure, this is a deeply affecting, hopefully cathartic, but potentially harrowing night at the theatre – this is an intellectually stimulating, emotional gut-punch of a play.
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- Jack Teiwes
In what might be either a psychotic break or a divine revelation, Harry Joy concludes that when he “died” it was not his old life to which he returned, but rather has found himself in Hell.
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- Jack Teiwes
Assassins is not a conventional narrative musical, to be sure, but it is powerful stuff, with an emotional and intellectual impact not to be underestimated, lurking just below the surface of its outré premise and delightfully gaudy production design.
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- Jack Teiwes
STC’s new production of Saint Joan comes firmly recommended, reworking Shaw’s original text in a robust new version filled with passionate and moving performances.
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