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- Richard Cotter
A couple of years on, the story is still timely, and this encore production cements The Bleeding Tree as a bonafide classic.
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- Jack Teiwes
Billed as “the superhero origin story of Shakespeare’s Henry V”, this is a production filled with confident zeal but sadly doomed to fail as spectacularly as the French defeat at Agincourt.
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- Richard Cotter
A single man stopping a fleet of armoured vehicles is an inspiring image, one that has ignited the imagination of playwright Lucy Kirkwood. Not a masked avenger, yet he is still a mystery man, standing up against military might.
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- Richard Cotter
Despite committed characterisations from the cast, Mark Colvin's Kidney feels like a mismatched transplant, a graft of verbatim on to a more traditional dramatic narrative which, at the end of the two hour operation, the host rejects.
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- Jack Teiwes
Bell Shakespeare’s latest production of Richard 3 is something of a jumble. An uninspired staging of one of the great plays of the canon, redeemed if not entirely rescued by the strong central performances of the major female leads.
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- Emily Shaddick
From its opening moment In Difference reaches out and activates two very opposing emotional responses
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- Emily Shaddick
Mr Stink is the delightful tale of friendship between an odorous vagabond and Chloe, a gifted young writer who is suffering from the angst of school bullies and a mother who just doesn’t understand.
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