Category: Theatre
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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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Ride The Cyclone (Hayes) ★★★★
Ride The Cyclone sees the team at the Hayes pull out all the stops and boy does it pay off. When you’re having this much fun, who cares if the plot treads water.
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Chicago (Capitol Theatre) ★★★½
As great as the ol’ girl is… has she run out of steam?
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Stolen (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★½
It is simply impossible to watch Stolen without a sense of sadness and rage brewing within you.
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dog (KXT on Broadway) ★★★
With little dialogue, and little plot driving the story, dog is not a comfortable watch.
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POV (Belvoir 25a) ★★★★
The ever inventive re:group collective have arrived downstairs at Belvoir with POV, an experiment in blending theatre and documentary.
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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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Death of a Salesman (Theatre Royal Sydney) ★★★★½
The great tragedy of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman isn’t how it ends, it’s the fact it is still appallingly relevant.
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