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AussieTheatre’s Jan Chandler speaks with Grant Piro about his latest venture at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne… It is well known that Australian actors, especially those who choose to remain in this country, need to be versatile if they want to sustain an on-going career. Grant Piro’s career, which started…
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Our friends at Green Street Theatre in Melbourne have 10 double passes to give away to the Opening Night of Pornography this Thursday at 8pm at the Malthouse. This special Theatre Day offer for AussieTheatre readers is valid until 5pm today (Tuesday 19 February — Theatre Day in Victoria). The title of…
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Jane Montgomery Griffiths says her adaption of Dorothy Porter’s 2004 verse novel Wild Surmise “is an enactment of the act of love that is reading”. Until now, I hadn’t read Dorothy Porter. I’m nervous of verse novels; I think they’re a bit pretentious. How great to be so wrong. This Malthouse production celebrates…
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Whether or not the balance between dark humour and an unsettling atmosphere has been perfected in Tom Wright’s modern take on an ancient Greek tragedy, On The Misconception of Oedipus is even more grotesque than the original, and strongly confronting. Focusing largely on the parents burdened with a pre-determined and…
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I wonder what Federico García Lorca would think about Blood Wedding being performed in Australia 80 years after he wrote it. His work is so connected to Spain before the 1936–39 Civil War (it is believed he was assassinated by right wing forces days before the war broke out), but great writing comes…
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Another Lament, described as an improvisation on Henry Purcell’s music, is a reprisal of a 2010 Chamber Made season presented in a private living room. An enigmatic piece, with just one vocalist and an obscure narrative, it contains enough delights to sustain interest for the hour or so of the…
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Until I hit Google, I didn’t know about Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. A quote from the New York Times that his works are “the most significant literary achievement since World War II” crops up a lot. As an over-educated reader, I guess I should know him, but The Histrionic hasn’t encouraged me to seek…
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An Englishman dresses an American woman to present a lecture-cum-corroboree-cum-sing-a-long to white middle class theatre goers. She doesn’t understand that we celebrate the battles we lost, but she knows that Mabo isn’a a dance and thinks it’s time she explained Indigenous reconciliation to us. With so many levels of wrong, Tina C…
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Theatrical innovator and multi award-winning British comedian Christopher Green brings his wonderfully outrageous character, Tina C, to the Malthouse stage for the very first time this month and AussieTheatre is thrilled to have 2 double passes to giveaway to the show! Our 2 Double Passes are for Friday 23 March at…
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Stephen Fry described Christopher Green’s Tina C as “one of the great comic creations of the age”. Tina may not agree as she thinks she’s just a girl singer who used the healing power of country music to help the post-Bush US. Having gone down under a few times, she’s…
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