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Message In A Bottle (Sydney Opera House) ★★★★★
None of this should work. The music of Sting, mixed with contemporary hip-hop dance, and a story about the plight of refugees. But choreographer Kate Prince has pulled off a miracle in Message in a Bottle. Or, to put it another way… every little thing she does is magic!
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MQFF 2023 Reviews UPDATED
I’m reviewing films at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival this year for The Queer Review. I’ve consolidated my reviews (and those by other Queer Review reviewers) here so they sit in the one place. I’ve listed them in star rating order to make things easier for people considering going and added interviews we’ve run with…
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Robyn Archer: An Australian Songbook (Belvoir) ★★★1/2
Devised and Performer by Robyn Archer. Belvoir St Theatre. 18 – 29 Oct, 2023. Robyn Archer is a storyteller, it just may not be the story you expect to hear. It’s notable that the title to her new show is An Australian Songbook, rather than THE Australian Songbook. There is a multiplicity of options and…
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Bark of Millions (Sydney Opera House) ★★★★★
Full review up on The Queer Review.
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A Little Night Music (Hayes Theatre) ★★★★
There’s something thrilling about a chamber production of a Sondheim musical. Restricting the space and staging focuses everything on the music and performances. And with a score that can be as tricky as this, the performances need to be sharp.
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Blaque Showgirls (Griffin) ★★★
Blaque Showgirls is both a daft comedy and a commentary on the status of indigenous Australian lives. Terrible and terrific at the same time, it has the energy of a Christmas panto fueled with bags of cocaine – to be honest, I loved and hated it in equal measure.
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Venus & Adonis (Seymour Centre) ★★★1/2
Damien Ryan’s Venus & Adonis feels like a companion piece to Jessica Swale’s Nell Gwynn, both reframe Shakespeare with a female protagonist, lashings for humour and cutting commentary on the battle of the sexes.
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Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (Belvoir) ★★★★1/2
Zahra Newman steps into the role that won Audra McDonald her 6th Tony Award and an Emmy nomination. These are big shoes to fill, and she is more than up to the task.
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The Visitors (Sydney Theatre Co.) ★★★★
Six clan leaders, and one younger proxy, gather to observe the boats approaching their land and discuss how best to deal with the situation. Should they present a show of force to scare them away, or treat them like visitors and offer hospitality?
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Hayes Theatre) ★★★★★
Perfect. No Notes.
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