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- Nicholas Routley
One of the longer-lasting of Australia’s regional festivals, the annual weekend of chamber music concerts offered by the Southern Cross Soloists, along with many other marvellous musicians, has been a focal point of classical music performance in the Northern Rivers since its inception in 2001.
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- Richard Cotter
Grotesque and misanthropic, Taylor Mac's Hir is identifiable as Theatre of Cruelty complete with repetitive projectile vomiting, piercing sound, public pissing, and bright stage lighting.
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- Richard Cotter
After The Dance concerns itself with the generation that missed the First World War by a whisker and were celebrating and commiserating the hard won peace with copious amounts of whisky – predominantly Irish in this production – gin, brandy, and wine (when one can be bothered to fetch it from the cellar).
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- Jack Teiwes
This is not a perfect production, but it is on the whole quite a strong one, and a rare chance to see a professional local staging of this excellent play.
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- Richard Cotter
Kindertransport sounds like a toy, a benevolent children's vehicle on which to play.
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- Marika Bryant
At the end of each day my brain is full to burst: so many stories in my head, so much new information to absorb and embrace. Can life get any sweeter?
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- Jack Teiwes
As is generally the case with neo-burlesque, this variety show of different performers’ acts runs the gamut from erotic to parodic, but they tend to largely fall into the camp of, well… camp.
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