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- Richard Cotter
“A place and a say, that's all we ever wanted,” states Aunt Mavis in Kylie Coolwell's sprawling inner city opus, Battle of Waterloo.
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- Daniel Morgan Potts
B-GIRL is marketed as a rock-opera-odyssey but I think that's a stretch. It's really about the man: iOTA.
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- Rebecca Whitton
Venus is Fur is a play within a play, inspired by a book. Written by David Ives, it is a smart, funny, feminist discourse on fetishes, power and female objectification, with elements of a gothic thriller, crackling with suspense and a hint of threat.
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- Emily Shaddick
Four Seasons in One Night is the tale of an Irish boy, who moved to Australia, went to New York and took on the role of a boy from Jersey. The Irish boy is Bobby Fox and the boy from Jersey is Franki Valli who’s rags to riches journey was made into the award winning Broadway sensation Jersey Boys.
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- Daniel Morgan Potts
Watching this play last night at the Bondi Pavilion I felt an overwhelming dissonance between the quality of the production and the writing itself. Neighbourhood Watch is a text the themes of which exceed its details. Good in general and bad in particular.
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- Richard Cotter
A warm and winning performance by writer/performer Adriano Cappelletta makes his autobiographical cabaret, This Boy’s In Love, a late night delight at The Old Fitzroy.
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- Daniel Morgan Potts
So what would drive an amateur – what would drive a woman – into boxing? That’s at the heart of English writer Charlotte Josephine’s gutsy exploration of a woman in the ring, Bitch Boxer on now at The Old 505.
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