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Vieux Carré is one of Tennesse Williams lesser-known plays. It opened on Broadway on 30 April 1977, closed on 15 May and didn’t add to the playwright’s collection of Pulitzer Prizes for Drama (two) or New York Drama Critic’s Circle prizes for Best American Play (four). ITCH’s Midsumma production is already…
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Tickets should cost money. If I didn’t write about theatre, I wouldn’t be able to see anywhere near as much theatre as I do. Theatre tickets aren’t free because theatre is created by people who deserve to get paid in the same way that your doctor or postie expects to get paid…
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The last time Cirque Du Soleil was in town, Saltimbanco was performed in a so-wrong sports arena, so it’s wonderful to have Ovo back in the relative intimacy of the purpose-built tent community of the Grand Chapiteau – even if it is in the weird concrete emptiness of Docklands. In 2013, 15 million people will…
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Gaybies is on its way to being an important piece of theatre that shakes up stale and dull opinions. Opening at Midsumma, it’s singing show tunes with the choir, but there couldn’t be better and more fabulous audience to introduce this work to. Created by music theatre director/creator Dean Bryant, Gaybies is the first…
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The Theatre Works Midsumma program has started with the sold out Psycho Beach Party and promises to continue being awesome with Sydney Fringe favourite Here Lies Henry opening on 22 January. Henry has an aversion to telling the truth, but actor Matthew Hyde doesn’t mind chatting with Anne-Marie Peard. Describe…
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If you’re looking for a terrific show for fussy audiences, Oh Suivant at the Arts Centre won hearts and kept everyone’s attention – even the grown ups! This two-person circus from Belgium melds trick, live music and theatre in a work that’s created for little ones, but enchants everyone and refuses to…
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Hot diggity! If Psycho Beach Party isn’t the most hip, groovy and neat-o hit of Midsumma, then I’ve got no idea what people like. Full of lust, longing and psychotic shaving, it proves that you don’t have to be a queen to be camp or be gay to be queer. There’s…
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Melbourne’s Midsumma festival has been celebrating queer culture for 25 years and officially runs from 13 January to 3 February. Theatre Works starts a couple days early with Psycho Beach Party opening on 11 January. When people in the town are attacked in strange sado-masochistic ways, it is up to…
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Somehow I’d missed Bernadette Robinson in Songs for Nobodies. If you also missed it, or know that you have to see it again, it’s back in Melbourne at the Arts Centre and it is as great as everyone said it was. I admit that I’m always dubious about a showcase work – and…
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Joey the horse is clearly three people in a horse suit and his story is emotionally manipulative, a bit schmaltzy and narratively safe, but I wasn’t the only person crying for that horse on New Year’s Eve. If the passionate standing ovation from opening night is a hint of the love…
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