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I heard about the 2009 Black Saturday fires from Facebook while enjoying coconut pie in green and rainy Ubud, Bali. I couldn’t have be more removed from the winds and oven-hot dryness, but was back in Canberra on a similar day in 2003 when I had packed a box of…
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They had me at ‘Gimme Head’. Five girls, harmonies and The Radiators, how could I not love it? Lady Sings it Better is a five singer, three band member cabaret group who venture into the world of male music and take cock rock and power ballads to a whole new level.…
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It’s almost any kind of family morning in Sydney. Anna fusses over her husband’s breakfast. Henry is concerned about getting to work on time. Their daughter’s boyfriend has to be reminded not to smoke in the house. It’s business as usual, except in the next room, fourteen year old Milla…
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Exciting things are happening at the Australian Theatre for Young People, and the season has only just begun. 2012’s first performance – which has just ended its run at the Wharf – is the first of five plays in the season, and arguably one of the more important works it…
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Years ago when I was in Year 12, our teacher brought out the script of Louis Nowra’s Summer of the Aliens. At first I thought; who wants to read a play about Aliens?, but I loved it the first time I read it and seeing it on-stage made me fall…
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What is most satisfying about a production at the Blue Room Theatre is that the performances are low-key and brimming with energy; they’re the hidden gems of the drama community. Eggshell Stomp Productions proudly presents the energetic double-bill The Same Paige / Janey Does Stand-Up, which proved to be uproariously…
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It’s great to see PICA continuing to present edgy and original productions, and ….Miskien is no exception. I left the theatre requiring time to digest the many emotions and themes presented in this sixty minute play. Miskien is a play with two characters whose lives have become a bore; Cormac…
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Heartfelt and honest performances from a wonderful cast are reason enough to see the MTC’s Tribes. With three extravert, attention-seeking adult children living with their over-achieving parents, there’s rarely a quiet moment in this house. Dad (Brian Lipson) is a writer and a never-wrong academic, Mum (Sarah Peirse) is trying to write…
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As it’s Saint Valentine’s Day week, it’s a commercial glut of glittery hearts and factory roses as we’re told to face the future as the gods intended: as a wholesome twosome. Blah to that; celebrate instead by going to fortyfive downstairs to see Little One’s Theatre’s Two by Two. It’s…
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I knew it was going to be controversial, even before I saw the play. All one has to do is look at the title to know it will aim to shock and awe, and yes, the daily papers are in a tizz. Their main objection seems to be that the…
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