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- Jack Teiwes
Not so much a kitchen sink drama as perhaps a "backyard verandah drama", The Shifting Heart is a 1957 play dealing with the trials and tribulations of immigrant Australians.
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- Marika Bryant
Comedians walk the tight-rope more than most performers: this is an exercise in communication and observation; relegation and distribution; delivery and response. So many contingencies to take into account – demographics, geography, socio-economic groupings and ‘what’s happening now’.
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- Richard Cotter
A seventeen strong ensemble struts their formidable stuff in the small space of the The Depot Theatre, filling it with the joy and verve and sweet melancholy of Stephen Sondheim's music and lyrics and George Furth's book.
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- Richard Cotter
Climactic end to a climatic argument, Kill Climate Deniers delivers a playfully provocative ninety minutes of fast and furious fuming with eco warriors from conflicting camps giving lip and shooting from the hip.
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- Jack Teiwes
A thrilling, queasy, intermittently dull yet frequently hilarious romp through a stained fantasia of a society seemingly in the process of eating its own tail.
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- Richard Cotter
In the state of Victoria, Family Violence is the term used instead of Domestic Violence. The term superseded Domestic Violence in the vernacular because in police culture, its reporting of and response to, was met with a lethal indifference.
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- Jack Teiwes
This is big-budget burlesque, with the glamour and production values cranked up to 11, with sumptuous costumes, elaborate props, and a degree of professional showmanship that is second to none.
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- Jack Teiwes
A first play by Michelle Law, this story takes the form of a (Chinese restaurant’s) kitchen-sink dramedy, one that is poignant and often very funny, if perhaps at times a bit predictable.
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