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- Richard Cotter
A delightful adaptation that imaginatively distils the highs and lows, the twists and turns, the light and dark of the story of the genuinely gifted girl, bullied for bibliophilia.
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- Emily Shaddick
Children will love it and adults will find themselves remembering why fart jokes were funny in the first place.
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- Nicholas Routley
The program was like a kaleidoscope of pieces of music ranging from Mozart and Boccherini to contemporary Australian composers William Barton (who also performed, with unique virtuosity and also deep intensity, the didgeridu) and Gordon Hamilton.
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- Richard Cotter
Master Class is truly a master class in performance and presentation, a lesson in excellence.
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- Marika Bryant
Writers Festivals are not just for lovers of books, or aspiring authors, or people who just want to witness, first hand, some famous people all milling around the same area. Moreover it is a feast for our senses.
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- Richard Cotter
Writer Andrew Upton has taken Chekhov’s first untitled play, re-jigged it, updated it to Russia in the 1990’s, post perestroika, and fashioned an expansive, exuberant and entertaining text, electrifyingly realised by director John Crowley and his wonderful cast.
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- Emily Shaddick
Matthew Whittet wrote Seventeen with the explicit idea of its main characters being played by actors over 70. It is the actors who are the joy of this production.
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