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- Emily Shaddick
Tom Ballard’s show The World Keeps Happening is everything a thesaurus could pump out at you if you looked up the word funny.
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- Emily Shaddick
The magic of the book has now been brought gloriously to the stage by Jonathan Rockefeller, who combines the caterpillar’s famous tale with 3 other beloved Carle stories, and brings them to life with the use of 75 puppets.
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- Richard Cotter
In choosing to stage Swallow, the company has not taken the easy option of delivering a crowd pleasing night at the theatre. It is a tough, terrifying, complex and conflicting play that demands attention. And this production is palpably arresting.
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- Emily Shaddick
The Australian Ballet’s production of Storytime Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty brings the fairy tale to the stage with a flutter of magnificent tutus and enchanting ballet performances.
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- Jack Teiwes
Disgraced is play about prejudices, both unexamined and overwrought, the assimilation and persistence of culture, the (in)escapable nature of heritage and upbringing, with the often disastrous intersections of the personal and political when such issues come to the boil.
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- Richard Cotter
Some may nay say; a comedian trying to do Shakespeare is way to dusty death, but in the gifted, meandering, manic mechanics of this presentation, it moves like a maverick mystery tour, always surprising, never really knowing where it might snake to.
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- Richard Cotter
Noel Coward said his early upbringing was “liable to degenerate into refined gentility unless carefully watched”. If so, Hay Fever is a sort of anecdotal antidote.
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