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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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Warm up and relax into summer at Hamer Hall with Riverside Live, a program of free concerts, workshops and debates on Thursday and Friday lunchtimes, and on Friday and Saturday evenings. Thursday lunchtimes (12.30–1.30) are well-bring workshops designed to get visitors active. What better way to wake up a why-isn’t-it-Friday slump…
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300+ shows in 19 days. Can it be done? Maybe not, but the 2012 Melbourne Fringe has begun and there’s enough art on show to keep you busy every day. For 30 years, the Melbourne Fringe has celebrated independent art and artists with a program that always encourages exploration, experimentation and risk.…
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Hello, my name is Anne-Marie and Nicola Gunn made me confront one of my greatest public fears. Like many theatre goers, I like the safe dark space that secures my anonymity from the performers in the lights. Creator and performer Gunn likes to bring us into the same space. After all,…
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What do you do if you love Gilbert and Sullivan, but can’t even dream about mounting a full-scale production for the Melbourne Fringe? May Jasper and Alia Vryens don’t let obstacles stand in their way and are performing the world’s first full cast production of Pirates of Penzance with only…
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Even if she hasn’t had much of late, 40-something Louise hasn’t forgotten the thrill of wild and illicit sex, and the possibly-too-young Chinese masseur at the local mall is unintentionally finding her more-please spots and she’s hoping for ‘that’ kind of happy ending. In her new play Happy Ending, Melissa Reeves takes…
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Melbourne’s Black Lung Theatre and Whaling Firm went to a remote Timor Leste island, where they spent a few weeks in an abandoned colonial hotel (dodgy power and no running water) with a band called Galaxy and a performance company called Liurai Fo’er. The result is a roller-coaster rush of storytelling that…
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Critics criticise because theatre this exquisite exists. Robert LePage’s Lipsynch asks for nine hours of your time, but there’s no need to be scared. Unlike watching a box set or spending a day at work, there are intervals with time to talk with friends and strangers and to share a comradery that…
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In Hell House, Melbourne’s wonderful Back to Back Theatre ask what theatre can tell us about belief and if it can really offer guidance on morality. In the same week that I saw plays that screamed at me that it’s ok to be gay and racism is bad, it was almost…
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Ben Grant created and performs in The Shrink and Swell of Knots, which opens at La Mama on 8 August . A man starts building his own coffin, but decides to turn it into a raft in a work described as “an energetic, challenging and optimistic show about struggle, filled…
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When the publicity for a show beginning with “I’m not a racist, but…”, I get ready to say “I’m not a critic, but…”. Unaustralia is set on Sydney’s Cronulla beach and explores a fictional story leading up to the race riots of 2005. It’s a bit like Channel 10s The Shire, but…
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