Category: Drama
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The Past is a Wild Party (Qtopia) ★★★★
Queer lit collides with queer life in Noëlle Janaczewska’s one-woman show, The Past is a Wild Party.
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Cost of Living (Sydney Theatre Co.) ★★★½
Cost of Living is not a play about inflation or Coles & Woolies gouging consumers. No, this is Martyna Majok’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning play about four people navigating complex physical, emotional and financial relationships.
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swim (Griffin) ★★★½
In Ellen van Neerven’s swim everything is fluid. Memory, emotion and, of course, water.
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Counting & Cracking (Belvoir) ★★★★★
Not that Counting & Cracking needs another five star review this late in its lifespan – but I’m happy to give it one for posterity.
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Sunset Strip (New Theatre) ★★★
Misery loves company, and Suzie Miller’s Sunset Strip sees two sisters deal with their own pain in different ways.
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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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Ink (New Theatre) ★★★★
Director Louise Fischer has taken an excellent script and worked wonders on a micro-budget.
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King James (Old Fitz) ★★½
Two guys meet in a bar. It may sound like the set-up to a joke, but it’s not.
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American Signs (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★
No one likes management consultants. Even management consultants don’t like management consultants. It takes a performer of unique empathy to make us care for The Consultant and thankfully Catherine Văn-Davies is dynamic in this one-person show.
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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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