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Oz Opera launches a show for kids

Children watching Oz Opera's The Barber of Seville

Oz Opera are heading away from the posh theatre for a four-month tour of Victorian primary schools. Oz Opera is the touring arm of Opera Australia and aims to bring great opera to all Australians. Their 50-minute adaption The Barber of Seville has been created for primary schools and is…

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Bell Shakespeare: Phèdre

Phedre

When Bell Shakespeare deviates from the master, you know there’s a good reason. From Ancient Greek myth via Euripides, through Seneca’s Rome, past Racine in France and finally to Ted Hughes in England, the story of Phèdre has naturally developed along the way. Yet it remains as horrifying and compelling…

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Flowerchildren’s the pick of the bunch

Flowerchildren

Magnormos’s 2011 premiere of Flowerchildren: The Mamas and Papas Story sold out at Theatre Works, got rave reviews (here’s mine) and made it onto favourite and award’s lists. It’s since been developed and has opened its first professional season at The Comedy Theatre. If it doesn’t sell out, get rave reviews and awards,…

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TIED UP

TIED UP

Do you have a fetish? Don’t lie to me… Erotic tales and melancholy jazz entwine as we head underground into the often veiled, dark areas of sexuality and the secret fetishes that lie within. Following a sold-out season at Melbourne Fringe, your hostess Jessamae St James, returns for three nights only…

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One Man, Two Guvnors opens in Melbourne

One Man, Two Guvnors opens in Melbourne

By the guffaws at the opening night of One Man, Two Guvnors, it’s guaranteed to be a sold-out must-see. With a cast and script as tight as a mother-of-the-bride’s girdle, low-class British farce doesn’t get any classier. Commissioned by the National Theatre of Great Britain, it opened in June 211 and had…

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