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Details: 05 April 2008

What can one do with Hamlet that hasn’t been done, over and over, before?

Details: 04 April 2008

Nevin’s performance is technically virtuosic, in a most subtle and understated way, superbly nuanced as it swings from bravado to self doubt, false courage to the real thing, from savvy thinking to mixed feelings

Details: 03 April 2008

Heaven By Storm | The Umbilical Brothers

The Umbilical Brothers are fast, physical and fun, entertaining at the very least and sometimes brilliant.

Details: 03 April 2008

Fishnet stockings! Alcohol! Gyrating females and bare breasts! All this... from puppets. Cabaret Décadanse is a rollicking, sassy, sexy and hilarious puppet feast for adults.

Details: 01 April 2008

Blank the Musical | Blank Slate & Twisted Melon

Not only must these comedic souls be entertaining, (they are expected to be funny), they must somehow create a storyline (coherent or otherwise) as they turn a word into a piece of musical theatre.

Details: 01 April 2008

Mistero Buffo is undoubtedly Dario Fo’s most often performed work, with over ten million people having seen the play worldwide.

Details: 01 April 2008

It’s easy to dismiss the James Bond films as a pop-cultural phenomena, but when seeing all of the cumulative music that has been created over the years, the evidence begins to stack up to the contrary.

Details: 01 April 2008

Axed is the perfect example of how not to execute a comedy show, particularly a one-off special event.

Hamlet | new theatre

The Year of Magical Thinking | STC

Heaven By Storm | The Umbilical Brothers

Cabaret Decadanse | SOMA

Blank the Musical | Blank Slate & Twisted Melon

Mistero Buffo | Stage Left Productions

The Symphonic James Bond | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Axed