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17/03/2015
There and back again: Spectrum NOW’s Orfeo ed Euridice
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Produced without adornment, Shannon Murphy ’s staging of Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice as part of the inaugural Spectrum NOW festival i...
10/03/2015
See me, feel me: Griffin Theatre Company’s Caress / Ache
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In 2005, Nguyen Tuong Van was executed in Singapore , having been convicted of drug trafficking. Immediately prior to his execution, the Si...
09/03/2015
Our song: MTC’s What Rhymes with Cars and Girls
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When Tom Stoppard’s radio play Darkside – based on Pink Floyd’s seminal album The Dark Side of the Moon – premiered in Britain in 2013, ...
08/03/2015
Backstage in the forest of Arden: Bell Shakespeare’s As You Like It
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As You Like It is a bit of a mad old cornucopic delight. It has everything Shakespeare has to offer – political intrigue, danger, love, mi...
03/03/2015
A fertile promontory: Sydney Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet
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Hamlet needs no introduction – as a play or as a character – yet each successive staging seems to require a justification, an explanation ...
01/03/2015
The impossible dream: Squabbalogic’s Man of La Mancha
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Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is one of those books which, like its titular character, has assumed a life much larger than anything its...
23/02/2015
Cosmic dancer: Belvoir’s Blue Wizard
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This review was o riginally written for artsHub . Billed as “the gayest one-man show ever!”, Nick Coyle’s Blue Wizard is like nothing...
21/02/2015
Like a dream: STC’s Suddenly Last Summer
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This is the third Tennessee Williams production I’ve seen inside of five months, following Eamon Flack ’s lyrical and haunting production o...
19/02/2015
War of the roses: SUDS’ Richard
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Richard III is one of Shakespeare’s most enduring villains. The famous crook-backed king straddles two worlds – that of the tumultuous past...
18/02/2015
We are the answer: Belvoir’s Kill the Messenger
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Nakkiah Lui ’s Kill the Messenger is the barest, most simple form of theatre you can imagine. Five people on a stage, telling one story. ...
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