Cultural Binge – independent theatre reviews from Sydney, Australia (mostly).
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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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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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Shitty (Belvoir 25a) ★★★★
What’s more horrific than turning 30 and looking for love?
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Mardi Gras Film Festival 2024 (Updating)
This year I’m reviewing films at the Mardi Gras Film Festival 2024 for The Queer Review, so I’ve created a page to collate all the coverage (including reviews and interviews for films screening at the festival). I’ve sorted the reviews into star order so you can clearly see which films The Queer Review recommends. This…
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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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Ruff Trade (The Motley Bauhaus) ★★★1/2
Ruff Trade starts off as a sex comedy about a 16th century male sex worker and unexpectedly ends up being a bitter tragedy. Strangely the heel-turn works, making for a satisfying, and gleefully historically inaccurate, short play.
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Sauna Boy (The Motley Bauhaus) ★★★1/2
Ever wondered what life is like for the people who work behind-the-scenes in a gay sauna? Dan Ireland-Reeves’s Sauna Boy has your answers.
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Iago (Cracked Actors Theatre) ★★★
Much like an actual character, there are the things Hackett’s Iago says it is, things it wants to be and the things that it actually is.
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Rizo: Prizmatism (Wharf 1 Theatre) ★★★★
Rizo, the New York based 70s-rocker-meets-50s-chanteuse-filtered-through-a-00s-drag-diva-turned-yoga-instructor, hits middle-age and the Sydney Festival with her new show Prizmatism, offering an antidote to the isolation of the last few years and a respite from the news of today.
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