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31/12/2016

The Playlist: 2016 at the theatre

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As with previous years , ‘The Playlist’ is a musical summary of the year’s theatre-going. The rule is (mostly) simple: find a piece of musi...

2016, the verdict

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THEATRE Event(s) of the Year A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare’s Globe Golem – 1927, presented by STC The Golden ...
16/12/2016

Highly emusing: Don’t Look Away’s Babes in the Woods

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An edited version of this piece was published on artsHub . First produced in 2003 by Melbourne’s Playbox theatre company (now Maltho...
09/12/2016

Dreamer: Windmill's Girl Asleep

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At the Adelaide Festival in 2014, a new play by Matthew Whittet was premiered. Forming the third part in a trilogy for Windmill Theatre Co...
23/10/2016

Matías Piñeiro and the Shakespeareada

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About a month ago, I came across a review from the Locarno Film Festival about a film called Helena & Hermia . Loosely based on the ep...
22/10/2016

The elephant in the room: Griffin’s The Turquoise Elephant

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An edited version of this piece originally appeared on artsHub . One of the first productions I saw at Griffin was Ian Meadows’ Betw...
24/09/2016

No dreams here: STC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is my favourite of all Shakespeare’s plays. You can read me bang on about it on numerous occasions on this blog...
14/09/2016

Geeks bearing myths: Montague Basement’s Metamorphoses

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After going from strength to strength in their first two years, Sydney-based collective Montague Basement have decided to speak of ‘forms ...
12/09/2016

Rock this ground: Shakespeare’s Globe’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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This is celebrating Shakespeare in the truest possible way: come in, drink beer, shout at the stage, come and go as you please and get in...
07/08/2016

The secret history: STC’s The Hanging

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People disappear all the time.  Ask any policeman.  Better yet, ask a journalist…  Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or ali...