Sydney Reviews
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- Emily Shaddick
The Australian Ballet’s production of Storytime Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty brings the fairy tale to the stage with a flutter of magnificent tutus and enchanting ballet performances.
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- Jack Teiwes
Disgraced is play about prejudices, both unexamined and overwrought, the assimilation and persistence of culture, the (in)escapable nature of heritage and upbringing, with the often disastrous intersections of the personal and political when such issues come to the boil.
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- Richard Cotter
Some may nay say; a comedian trying to do Shakespeare is way to dusty death, but in the gifted, meandering, manic mechanics of this presentation, it moves like a maverick mystery tour, always surprising, never really knowing where it might snake to.
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- Richard Cotter
Noel Coward said his early upbringing was “liable to degenerate into refined gentility unless carefully watched”. If so, Hay Fever is a sort of anecdotal antidote.
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- Richard Cotter
Mark Kilmurry's production of Good People is slickly, skillfully staged, Tobhiyah Stone Feller's set design that morphs from roller door struggle street to gracious, genteel comfortability is ingenious.
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- Richard Cotter
The Peasant Prince is simple, imaginative, and constructive celebration of life, while the tawdry, paltry comic book extravaganza delights in destructiveness, depression and darkness.
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- Jack Teiwes
Grease is the word… but probably is not the word that you’ve heard before. It does, however, most definitely have groove and meaning.
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