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Spring Awakening. Photo by Belinda Strodder

StageArt: Spring Awakening

22 May, 201731 December, 2019 Anne-Marie Peard 0 Comments StageArt

Melbourne’s had the opportunity to see two adaptions of Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play Spring Awakening this month. StageArt’s production of

My Fair Lady, Melbourne

19 May, 20175 January, 2020 Anne-Marie Peard 3 Comments Anna O'Byrne, Cecil Beaton, Charles Edwards, Deidre Rubenstein, John Frost, Julie Andrews, Music Theatre, Oliver Smith, Opera, Opera Australia, Reg Livermore, Robyn Nevin, Tony Llewellyn-Jones

“Words, words, words! I’m so sick of words I get words all day through.” This was always my favourite song

Cabaret, Melbourne season

Cabaret, Melbourne season

9 May, 201731 December, 2019 Anne-Marie Peard 0 Comments Cabaret, Chelsea Gibb, David M Hawkins, Kate Fitzpatrick, musical theatre, Paul Capsis

David M Hawkins’s production of Cabaret may be as pretty as Sally Bowles’s green nail polish, but the only person

Richard 3. Bell Shakespeare. Richard III. Kate Mulvany & Meredith Penman. Photo by Prudence Upton

Bell Shakespeare: Richard 3

22 April, 20175 January, 2020 Anne-Marie Peard 0 Comments Anna Cordingley, Bell Shakespeare, Kate Mulvany, Peter Evans, Theatre

Being in the depths of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, I was calling Richard 3, by Bell Shakespeare, Chick Dick

Trainspotting Live

Trainspotting Live

30 March, 201731 December, 2019 Anne-Marie Peard 0 Comments Adam Spreadbury-Maher, Calum Barbour, Chris Dennis, Erin Marshall, fortyfivedownstairs, Gavin Ross, Greg Esplin, In Your Face Theatre, Kings Head, MICF2017, Michael Lockerbie, Rachael Anderson

I was splashed by a wet condom and had a shite covered naked arse within touching distance. Choose life. Choose theatre.

Paul Blackwell. Faith Healer. MTC. Photo by Jeff Busby

MTC: Faith Healer

10 March, 201731 December, 2019 Anne-Marie Peard 0 Comments Alison Whyte, Belvoir, Brian Thomson, Colin Friels, Judy David, MTC, Paul Blackwell, Verity Hampson

Faith Healer, directed by Judy Davis, at Sydney’s Belvoir last year was so successful that the MTC put it into

The Play That Goes Wrong. Luke Joslin, George Kemp, Nick Simpson Deeks, James Marlowe

The play that goes so wrong that it’s right

27 February, 201731 December, 2019 Anne-Marie Peard 0 Comments Adam Dunn, Brooke Satchwell, Darcy Brown, George Kemp, James Marlowe, Luke Joslin, Mischief Theatre, Nick Simpson-Deeks, Tammy Welle

The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society present The Murder at Haversham Manor. It goes wrong. Very wrong. So wrong that it’s totally right.

La Mama. The Fever

La Mama: The Fever

27 February, 201731 December, 2019 Anne-Marie Peard 0 Comments James Wardlaw, La Mama, Tom Healey

In a hotel room in a third-world country, an unnamed person recounts a story of the fever he suffers from

MTC. John. Photo by Jeff Busby

MTC: John

18 February, 201731 December, 2019 Anne-Marie Peard 0 Comments Annie Baker, Elizabeth Gadsby, Helen Morse, Johnny Carr, Melita Jurisic, MTC, Richard Vabre, Russell Goldsmith, Sarah Goodes, Ursula Mills

American playwright Annie Baker won a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for The Flick (seen at Red Stitch) when she was 33. Her writing’s

The Red Detachment of Women

Review: The Red Detachment of Women

17 February, 201731 December, 2019 Anne-Marie Peard 2 Comments Arts Centre Melbourne, AsiaTOPA, National Ballet of China, Orchestra Victoria

Can’t afford your own time machine? A ticket to the National Ballet of China’s Red Detachment of Women is the