Category: Comedy
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Too Human (KXT on Broadway) ★★½
Part ‘Percy Jackson’, part 80s teen sex farce, Too Human is funny as long as you don’t think about it too deeply.
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Dracula (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★
Sydney Theatre Company’s Dracula isn’t just theatre, it’s an event and a milestone.
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[Your Name] (KXT on Broadway) ★★★★
It’s horny, fumbling, silly and strangely emotional – kind of like watching the early years of Tumblr being brought to life on stage.
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Master Class (Ensemble) ★★★½
Famed soprano Maria Callas is played, mostly, for laughs in Terrence McNally’s Tony Award winning play, giving Lucia Mastrantone the chance to work the room and terrorise her fellow performers.
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Never Closer (Belvoir) ★★★
Sharp characters, tight plotting and witty dialogue combine to deliver an almost watertight script. This production, transplanted from Belvoir’s smaller 25a programme, gets a bigger budget to play with and the result is a crowd pleaser.
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London: The Plays (Part One)
The Hills of California ★★★1/2 / Machinal ★★★★ / Minority Report ★★★ / People, Places and Things ★★★★★ I saw a wide variety of plays from big West End blockbusters to fringe two-handers. As always, more money and bigger names doesn’t always mean it’s a better show.
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No Pay? No Way! (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★1/2
Should we Aussies be rioting in Woolies? Looting our local Coles? Releasing anarchy down in Aldi?
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Zombie! The Musical (Hayes) ★★★★★
This show has my heart, and it can eat it too if it likes. So, chookas to the Apocalypse!
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The Hate Race (Malthouse) ★★★★
Zehra Newman hits it out the park with this funny, charming look at growing up Black in suburban Australia.
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A Fool in Love (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★
There’s putting a hat on a hat, and then there’s A Fool in Love – the new comedy that gets so engrossed in its maximalist approach it threatens to lose itself completely. To quote the great poet/philosopher of our age, Taylor Swift, “You need to calm down”.
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