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- Stephanie Glickman
It’s a complicated, fussy work, visually powerful and conceptually cumbersome. While it does not fully hold together, Rite of Spring’s design and spectacle make for a unique experience if viewers are happy to just let it all wash over them and not worry about connecting all the dots.
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- Nikki Spunde
Diaspora offers the audience a vision of a distant imagined future and wow, what a vision it is!
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- Heather Bloom
There’s a great deal happening in Anthem, a cross section of humanity meets and the differing opinions and cultures make for great people watching.
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- Heather Bloom
As climate change awareness reaches an all-time fever pitch, with the likes of Greta Thunberg calling on humanity to save the planet, while business booms for the Australian coal mining industry, Circus Oz’s Aurora could not be more perfectly timed.
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- Danielle Cummins
What happens when a deep emotional connection is spurned, betrayed, dismissed and ignored? What dark depths is a wounded psyche capable of descending to in order to avenge an anguished psyche?
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- Danielle Cummins
Being both participant and audience forces a level of engagement that is physical and immediate, enjoyable and challenging. However it does feel that the nature of the "theatre of performance" is more important than the content of its message.
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