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- Richard Cotter
Literary allusions to Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll are part of the puzzle to Aidan Fennessy’s The House on the Lake.
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- Daniel Morgan Potts
In The Unknown Soldier, Sandra Eldridge has written a play for young people about learning, relationships, and the possession of history.
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- Daniel Morgan Potts
The House of Ramon Iglesia is both sincere and compassionate without giving way to false-answers or back-slapping. Between love and hope there is also failure and forgiveness.
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- Daniel Morgan Potts
Inspired by the 2008 loss of 5 billion Euro on the futures market by Jerome Kerviel, Trade is an unpolished allegory of moral and intellectual collapse.
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- Daniel Morgan Potts
Sport for Jove has grasped this play, coloured and shaped it into a living whole. It's a pleasure to discover it with them.
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- Rebecca Whitton
Julia-Rose Lewis draws on the stultifying uneasiness of an Australian country town to set the tone of her first play, Samson.
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- Daniel Morgan Potts
Director Adena Jacobs has reimagined Oz as a “symbolic dream” telling what she calls a “central myth within our culture”, one which is concerned with the female body and the female mind.
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