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- Heather Bloom
The minimalist setting and strength of the script combined with the talent of the actor’s keeps the audience on the edge of their seats without ever pushing for thrills.
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- Simon Piening
In 1992, The Bodyguard was the second-highest grossing film of the year, behind Disney’s smash hit animated feature, Aladdin. Twenty-five years later, both films have been turned into stage productions and both of those, by sheer coincidence, are currently playing in Melbourne.
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- Catherine Della Bosca
Jacob Rajan delivers an utterly sublime performance, portraying all seventeen characters in the Guru of Chai – an award winning and original work from decorated New Zealand theatre company, Indian Ink.
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- Annika Priest
Five years ago three young women danced a punk prayer in a Moscow cathedral dressed in brightly coloured frocks and balaclavas, a brilliant juxtaposition of femininity and menace.
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- Heather Bloom
Female friendship is a funny thing. Both complex, and nurturing we are often taught to be competitors yet grow to become each other’s greatest fans instead. At the very heart of Amelia Bullmore’s play is the enduring nature of female friendship and how vital it is in emotional development.
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- Annika Priest
As humanity continues its blind progression, monsters will be spawned from our own wombs, intones the smirking sideshow tout in black.
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- Liza Dezfouli
This show by The Daughters Collective touts itself as ‘honest’ feminist comedy delving into the ‘beauties, horrors and complexities of mother-daughter relationships.’ Maybe so, but unless I’ve missed something, great chunks of it come across as mother-blaming and lacking in context.
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