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- Rebecca Whitton
Manifesto is a powerful and stunning work by one of Australia’s most talented choreographers.
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- Richard Cotter
Chaplinesque and Felliniesque, Room is a surreal realisation of the creative process, the creation of a show from concept to writing to auditioning to staging, a kaleidoscope of tumult, turmoil, bedlam and breakthrough.
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- Richard Cotter
The power of Girls & Boys is in the performance, which is totally compelling. You don’t want a review strewn with spoiler alerts, you just need to know that the journey to the summit is thrilling and devastating, led by a towering talent.
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- Richard Cotter
Sam O’Sullivan may well be David Williamson’s heir apparent at Ensemble, his play festooned with verbal foliage, a topiary pruned by topical shears that never let the branches sag with mere gags, instead shaping the story with sharp observation and an inquisitive wit.
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- Richard Cotter
The Wasp is a dramatic psychological pretzel fabricated with fright, a genuinely arresting hundred minutes of percolating manipulation motivated by slights past and present and an audacious ambition to bring those slights to right.
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- Richard Cotter
A thrilling three hour journey, The Jungle and the Sea delivers exhilarating theatre at cracking pace.
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- Richard Cotter
It’s a thrilling production that makes this sixty year old classic seem newly minted. Fresh.
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