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- Ashley Walker
This elegantly simple comic premise is spelled out in the title. This is the play that goes wrong and anything that can surely does.
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- Matt O''Neill
Typically, when artists are described as 'giving their all', it conjures images of a brutal, vulnerable harrowing experience. A form of sacrifice.
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- Jack Teiwes
Set in a regional Australian pub in 1989, Jim Cartwright’s play Two is almost an anthology, containing no pronounced core narrative, but rather as a showcase for two actors to show their versatility as they double-up in a succession of several roles each.
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- Richard Cotter
Set in Spain 1959, a period of Franco's fascist fiscal fiasco, Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour's latest incarnation of Carmen gives us the glitz and glamour of post War Europe and off sets it with a gypsy crew of contrabandits.
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- Richard Cotter
There's affectionate offensive arse kicking and farce kissing in Declan Greene's The Homosexuals, or 'Faggots', an unabashed bashing of the politicly correct pomposity that has infected our society.
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- Richard Cotter
Evan Placey's play is a keenly observed, cleverly constructed and penetrating piece of emotive, thought provoking theatre that pendulum swings our notions of guilt and innocence, victim and perpetrator.
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- Jack Teiwes
Once in a while a show comes along which so utterly surpasses your expectations that you leave the theatre feeling giddily happy at having seen something so full of vigour and sheer unadulterated fun.
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