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- Richard Cotter
Putting the ink into think, Howard Barker’s No End of Blame is as powerful and poignant, perhaps even more so, today, as it was when written, nearly forty years ago.
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- Jack Teiwes
This is an excellent production of a show which is likely to entertain, but may not quite have the punch or resonance which it perhaps packed upon its 1996 debut.
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- Marika Bryant
There are few topics more challenging than death, and the inevitable journey toward this state of non-being. The journey, one might say, is fraught with difficulty as we see our loved ones deteriorate, diminish, dement and lose their way; something we all fear; after all, what will happen to us come the evolution?
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- Penny Spirou
Amadeus Live is an engaging performance, which perfectly combines history, entertainment, and the live music standard that the Sydney Symphony Orchestra is renowned for.
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- Jack Teiwes
This is not a true story. We are told so very explicitly in the prologue, as the actor in this one-man play, Ben Gerrard, breaks the fourth wall right from the outset, one which will not ever really be bricked back up, even once he gets fully into character for the fabulous solo performance which is to follow.
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- Emily Shaddick
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is beautiful. The music will bubble in your blood and the story will sit with you for days.
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- Richard Cotter
It's always a pleasure to recognise the sort of people and places you know in a story. Realism stimulates. It is also a pleasure to see people and places that you know exaggerated to the level of the grotesque and exotic. That is why fantasy stimulates.
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- Ashley Walker
The internet as we know it has morphed into The Nether, a virtual playground similar to Second Life that demands almost as much attention as our own “real world”. Unfortunately, it has also inherited the dubious moralities of The Dark Web.
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