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- Richard Cotter
Dull animal endurance is given eloquence and a robust mocking humour in Bertolt Brecht's classic play, Mother Courage and Her Children.
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- Rebecca Whitton
Bree Langridge is an exceedingly charming performer. Her sense of fun is evident from the very start and, as she enters through the audience, resplendent in a dazzling red sequinned dress, she has an immediate rapport with the audience.
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- Rebecca Whitton
For about twelve years late night Australian radio host, Richard Mercer, hosted a program, Love Song Dedications. He called himself “The Love God” and he played the love song requests of his mostly sad and lovelorn late night listeners.
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- Richard Cotter
“A place and a say, that's all we ever wanted,” states Aunt Mavis in Kylie Coolwell's sprawling inner city opus, Battle of Waterloo.
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- Daniel Morgan Potts
B-GIRL is marketed as a rock-opera-odyssey but I think that's a stretch. It's really about the man: iOTA.
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- Rebecca Whitton
Venus is Fur is a play within a play, inspired by a book. Written by David Ives, it is a smart, funny, feminist discourse on fetishes, power and female objectification, with elements of a gothic thriller, crackling with suspense and a hint of threat.
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- Emily Shaddick
Four Seasons in One Night is the tale of an Irish boy, who moved to Australia, went to New York and took on the role of a boy from Jersey. The Irish boy is Bobby Fox and the boy from Jersey is Franki Valli who’s rags to riches journey was made into the award winning Broadway sensation Jersey Boys.
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