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- Dennis Clements
Don’t be put off by the brashness of Joe Dipietro’s title. This is a beautifully written piece with some wonderful insights into not only gay life but the nature of relationships more generally.
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- Jack Teiwes
An infectiously fun night of partying, around a showcase of outsized characters, bone-thudding bodyslams, impressive acrobatic twirls, faintly lewd histrionics and all manner of nonsense that was truly a wonder to behold.
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- Dennis Clements
These two are masters of the ‘off the cuff’ retort and had both their victims and audience in stitches.
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- Richard Cotter
David Williamson brings home the Bacon in his latest play, Sorting Out Rachel, a tale of avarice, adultery, adolescent bastardry, and assorted arsehole behaviour – lots of mischief not much virtue.
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- Jack Teiwes
All in all though, this proved to be an extremely entertaining night of sights and sounds, a fantastic concert showcasing some very cool new music that enhanced the experience of revisiting an Aussie classic.
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- Jack Teiwes
Wild Bore is not a play, in any conventionally narrative sense of the term. It is theatre as protest, as discussion, as polemic, as rebuttal; a bizarre, profane, stimulating, at times revolting and frequently hilarious grand guignol of highbrow ideas, low blows, bad taste, hot takes and bum jokes.
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- Jack Teiwes
Meow Meow is an incredible performer, her chill-inducing singing no less impressive that her hilarious comedic persona as the bossy, slightly bedraggled songstress determined to propel the show forward even as it falls to pieces around her, by sheer bloody-minded vivacity.
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- Jack Teiwes
Wakenshaw fills his various scenes with such noises to flesh out not only action but character, as he physically acts out various improbable, hilarious and even downright surreal encounters in his extraordinarily limber, almost contortionist performance.
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