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- Jack Teiwes
This is not a true story. We are told so very explicitly in the prologue, as the actor in this one-man play, Ben Gerrard, breaks the fourth wall right from the outset, one which will not ever really be bricked back up, even once he gets fully into character for the fabulous solo performance which is to follow.
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- Emily Shaddick
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is beautiful. The music will bubble in your blood and the story will sit with you for days.
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- Richard Cotter
It's always a pleasure to recognise the sort of people and places you know in a story. Realism stimulates. It is also a pleasure to see people and places that you know exaggerated to the level of the grotesque and exotic. That is why fantasy stimulates.
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- Ashley Walker
The internet as we know it has morphed into The Nether, a virtual playground similar to Second Life that demands almost as much attention as our own “real world”. Unfortunately, it has also inherited the dubious moralities of The Dark Web.
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- Dennis Clements
Given the current state of both American and Australian politics, both fixated on silencing the voices of diversity, it is a timely production of Assassins at the Hayes Theatre in Darlinghurst.
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- Richard Cotter
A haemorrhaging hooker and a hammer horror vampire are included in the vituperative five hander, The Night Alive by Conor McPherson.
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- Nicholas Routley
As soon as I heard that Australia’s premier vocal ensemble was teaming up with its most exciting early music orchestra, I resolved not to miss it. And my expectations were more than fulfilled.
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