Sydney Reviews
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- Rebecca Whitton
There’s something irresistible and irrepressibly exciting about a contemporary circus performance and Totem, the new show by Cirque du Soleil, doesn’t disappoint.
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- Jodi McAlister
Not a lot actually happens in Emerald City, which I think contributes to the problem: there are a lot of words to very little action. It’s a fairly shallow treatment of the problem of the highbrow versus the lowbrow.
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- Rebecca Whitton
Conceived by one of Stephen Sondheim’s long time collaborators, James Lapine, Sondheim on Sondheim is a tribute to the career of Broadway’s finest lyricist/composer of the last 50 years.
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- Augusta Supple
Breathing warm Australian breath into the literary pages of Gorky is no easy task.
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- Rebecca Whitton
It would be fair to say that Sydney audiences have become a little nervous about what to expect from Belvoir over recent times, but the company has unequivocally redeemed itself with this stunning, magical, pitch perfect production of Tennessee William’s autobiographical play, The Glass Menagerie.
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- Marika Bryant
That William Shakespeare sure knew a thing or three about the human condition: king and country, treachery, war, futility, love, tragedy – it’s all there in full view.
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- Jodi McAlister
An ambitious piece which follows the personal and political dimensions of the relationship between a white Australian man and a Chinese woman over twenty five years, it is occasionally problematic, but overall, a riveting, affecting, fascinating play. I could not look away.
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