Category: Drama
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Yentl (Malthouse) ★★★★★
This is first rate theatre with literally nothing to critique. Worth a trip to Melbourne to see it all on its own, we can only beg the theatre gods, or the yeytser ho’re, for a Sydney transfer.
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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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The Lehman Trilogy (Theatre Royal) ★★★★★
No bankers were harmed in the making of this play.
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Grain in the Blood (KXT on Broadway) ★★★
What does it take to be the hero? How far would you go to save a life? It’s the age old question of can the ends ever justify the means?
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The Lewis Trilogy (Griffin) ★★★★1/2
This is glorious! By staging all three parts of Louis Nowra’s The Lewis Trilogy together, Griffin gives us a snapshot of the darker side of Australian lives lurking just under the laughs. Something about that feels quintessentially Griffin!
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Homos, or Everyone in America (New Theatre) ★★★
What makes gay relationships different to straight ones? Set around the peak time of the fight for marriage equality in the US, Homos, or Everyone in America looks at tug of war between hetero-normative coupling, polyamory and what life for a gay couple is like once things become equal.
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Low Level Panic (KXT on Broadway) ★★★1/2
Three young women in a 90’s house-share trying to find love, or at least good sex, feels like the premise for an easy comedy, but Clare McIntyre’s Low Level Panic is a subtle exposé of the everyday impact of a male dominated culture over the women trying to navigate it.
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Shitty (Belvoir 25a) ★★★★
What’s more horrific than turning 30 and looking for love?
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The Inheritance, Parts 1 & 2 (Forty Five Downstairs) ★★★★
The Inheritance, is a sprawling epic, very loosely based on EM Forster’s Howards End. It was lauded in London, but dismissed on Broadway, in Melbourne it’s back to being adored once more.
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The Seagull (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★1/2
A familiar, classic play, adapted by a familiar, acclaimed playwright, starring a lot of familiar, adored faces. This should be an end-of-year showstopper, but as good as it is The Seagull is a bit less than the sum of its exciting parts.
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