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- Nicholas Routley
Wudjang: Not the Past is, among other things, a powerful wake-up call to non-indigenous Australians like me. After almost 250 years we shouldn’t need it, but we do.
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- Nicholas Routley
Italian baroque with Circa is an inventive attempt to relate the unrelateable, by two Australian ensembles at the height of their powers.
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- Emily Shaddick
The Wedding Singer is a joyous celebration of the 80s – of shoulder pads and hair-do’s that would block out the sun.
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- Richard Cotter
Triple X is based on Glace Chase’s life experience and there is no doubting the raw honesty in the writing and her performance as Dexie.
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- Richard Cotter
Black Brass is a play, personal and political, told through music and song that spans continents, colonisation and culture, and all the complexities that encompasses.
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- Richard Cotter
Based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's universally adored and admired book, The Little Prince is a light and sound phantasmagoria augmented by aerial and acrobatic choreography.
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- Emily Shaddick
The audience was lively with anticipation as they waited for the curtain to lift at Sydney Opera House on Bluey’s Big Play, the theatrical adaptation of the children's television show.
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- Richard Cotter
Inspired by the seminal rock album of the same name by seven-time Grammy Award winner Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill is a three hour plunge into opioid abuse and addiction, sexual abuse and porn addiction, work/life balance, and identity politics.
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