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- Richard Cotter
Heavens to Murgatroyd, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a mysterious affair of style.
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- Richard Cotter
Yes there are scars of Australia laid bare in Dear Son, but there is much humour too, a salving balm that promotes healing and connectivity.
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- Richard Cotter
Jack Kearney’s kitchen sinker, Born on a Thursday takes three hours to traverse ten months, a calendar stroll through 1999. Did a year really unfurl at such glacial pace back then?
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- Dr Daniela Kaleva
Vivacious and virtuosic, Pinchgut Opera’s intimate rendition is rooted deeply in research and the practice of historical performance, yet unmistakably Sydney – unmistakably Australian – in its swift, vibrant, and exhilarating delivery.
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This show is cold and unyielding even when subjected to the fire of performance.
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- Chenoeh Miller
The Festival of Death and Dying is not just a festival – it is a tender, artist-led act of remembering, and a deeply human invitation to witness ourselves, one another, and the stories that insist on being carried forward.
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Festooned with verbal foliage that has not desiccated over eight decades, Noel Coward’s Present Laughter is a present of much needed laughter leading up to the silly season.
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Apparently, hens like having their ovaries tickled. Bill, a baby boomer hobby farmer preoccupied with raising chickens saw it on You Tube. You gotta egg them on to egg them on.
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