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Anne-Marie spent many years working with amazing artists as a producer/manager/programmer at arts festivals all over Australia, but this left her with no time to go to the theatre; so, she became a freelance writer.
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Hot Box. Karin’s got one. I’ve got one. So do you. It’s that slightly awkward place where we feel hot enough to blend in with the crowd. The first great thing about Hot Box is that it’s at the new, super cute Butterfly Club. The club’s fluttered from South Melbourne to the city,…
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Sondheim fans don’t need anyone to convince them to see a production of Assassins, and they are selling out fortyfivedownstairs every night to see new a company, Watch This, take aim and fire. Assassins was first produced Off-Broadway in 1990 and at London’s Donmar Warhouse in 1992, the MTC showed it to Melbourne in…
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Slutmonster and Friends is a bit like Sesame Street doing porn with Annie Sprinkle, but so divinely filthy and wrong that it makes Avenue Q look like Disney on Ice and leaves most artistic commentary on gender relations and sexuality feeling as bland as the The Sound of Music. First seen at the 2012 Melbourne Fringe,…
Read MoreAction to the Word’s production of A Clockwork Orange has divided audiences and it’s already being declared genius or drivell. I thought it was horrorshow. If you have no connection to the 1962 novella by Anthony Burgess (who wrote this stage adaption) or Kubrik’s 1971 film (based on the book), that means…
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Lessons With Luis: Why didn’t someone tell me about these guys when they were at the Fringe last year? Never has awkward been so brilliant, and I dare any show to have me grinning so inanely. Famoucity! is gloriously atrocious as Luis, his dad, Len, and little brother, Luelin, teach us…
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My unexpected hit of MICF (so far) is Nicholas J Johnson’s Today Tonight, Tomorrow the World. It’s about his experience of being invited to appear on channel 7’s 6.30 pm muckhole Today Tonight. This is easily the worst show on Australian television for its fear mongering, exploitation and outright lying. At its…
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I’m not Josh Thomas’s demographic; he’s one of those performers who I knew about and have seen bits of, but wasn’t compelled to spend an hour with. This changed because I loved Please Like Me, the tv show he wrote that’s just finished on the ABC. I adored it. It’s refreshing and…
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I love Ruby Wax. I love her for every Ruby Wax Meets interview, because she script edited Absolutely Fabulous (great writers need great script editors – and I love script editing), and because she asks if anyone knows how to behave like an adult. I’ve been an adult for a long time now and…
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MKA have to have a dud; it’s natural that their streak of you-remind-me-why-I-love-theatre shows ends eventually, but it isn’t with Group Show. Now in their third year, this company – who still have no funding or formal financial support – have consistently been critically raved about and developed an audience…
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Conversation Piece is the only show in the Dance Massive festival that I’ve managed to see and it left me wanting to talk and rave and see it again. Lucy Guerin’s work makes me understand contemporary dance; her choreography has a visceral effect that goes beyond the physical, lets me know…
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