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29/08/2015
The show must go on: Belvoir & Sisters Grimm’s La Traviata
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Billed as “part opera, part protest, part drag show,” Sisters Grimm ’s La Traviata – co-produced with Belvoir , and playing in Belvoir’s D...
26/08/2015
Such stuff as dreams are made on: Bell Shakespeare’s The Tempest
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Written in 1612, The Tempest was Shakespeare’s last solo-authored play, and has been read (perhaps inaccurately) as a valediction to the t...
19/08/2015
The seven ages of John Bell
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This is a slightly edited version of an article written for the Australian Writers’ Guild ’s Storyline magazine, published in August 201...
09/08/2015
Love will tear us apart, again: STC’s The Present
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This review appeared in an edited form on artsHub . Chekhov’s reputation as a writer rests upon the legacy of his four major plays ( ...
08/08/2015
Murder ballads: Griffin Theatre Company’s The Bleeding Tree
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The statistics are staggering – on average, one woman is killed every week as a result of intimate partner violence ; one in three women ...
05/08/2015
Young at heart: Belvoir’s Seventeen
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We’ve seen it before – actors playing children and/or characters much younger than themselves – in plays like David Holman’s The Small Popp...
02/08/2015
Transfigured night: SUDS’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s perennial masterpieces – an effervescent concoction of magic, darkness, dreams, comedy, ...
19/07/2015
Play by the rules: STC & Malthouse’s Love and Information
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Caryl Churchill ’s plays are renowned for their intellectual rigour and their political preoccupations, as much as for pushing the boundari...
15/07/2015
The outsiders: Sport for Jove’s Of Mice and Men
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Published in 1937, John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men tells the story of two displaced itinerant workers, looking for work in Depres...
13/07/2015
A bard thing: Genesian Theatre’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
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This review was o riginally written for artsHub . Back in 2002, my parents took twelve-year-old me to see The Complete Works of Willia...
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