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- Richard Cotter
A roller coaster of rock n roll, rap, ballad and a little bit of torch, Ride the Cyclone is an hour and a half of big dipper thrills and cathartic confession.
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- Richard Cotter
This production of Death of a Salesman illuminates and resonates with intelligence, virtuosity and authority.
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- Richard Cotter
The empire of empathy is under siege from by the book bureaucracy and a federal government official who has been emotionally battered, bruised and baffled by a delinquent spouse and an equally delinquent son in Ruth Fingret’s Asylum.
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- Rebecca Whitton
That Mandela Mathia is alive and has made it to Australia is a testament to luck and extraordinary resilience. That this young NIDA-trained actor’s life story is now a play in Belvoir Theatre’s 2024 Season is a celebration of refugees making a new, successful life for themselves.
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- Nicholas Routley
After hearing two of the finest quartets in the country, who have worked together as quartets for many years it was interesting to hear seven of the best musicians in the SSO, who have worked together for years in the orchestra, come together to play chamber music.
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- Nicholas Routley
Ensemble Offspring is one of Australia's treasures. Under the leadership of the indomitable, passionately committed Claire Edwardes, it constantly re-invents itself, both in personnel and in the genre of pieces it gives to its audience.
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- Nicholas Routley
The Festival has built up such a reputation in the course of these four years that, for the first time, this year’s festival is virtually sold out.
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- Richard Cotter
The tragedy of the contemporary comes across like thunder in this performance of self aggrandisement, an almost trance like rant, Trump type tripe tripping from the tongue, dripping off the lips in a solid patch of rhetoric.
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