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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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GöteborgsOperans Danskompani (Roslyn Packer) ★★★★
GöteborgsOperans Danskompani are renowned and these two works make it clear why. Both fun and form-breaking, this is exciting contemporary dance to watch.
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Overflow (Darlinghurst Theatre Co) ★★★★★
The bottom line is, yes, Overflow is as good as everyone says it is, go see it!
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Alma Zygier: Premarital Sextet (Wharf 1 Theatre) ★★★★
Stepping away from the more theatrical side of Sydney Festival, I spent an early afternoon listening to Melbourian jazz singer Alma Zygier and her band reinterpret jazz classics with gusto in the Wharf 1 Theatre.
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An Evening Without Kate Bush (Wharf 1 Theatre) ★★★1/2
Kate Bush is an icon, a legend, an enigma and she is NOT appearing at the Sydney Festival. But Sarah-Louise Young is!
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Are we not drawn onward to new erA (Roslyn Packer Theatre)★★★
Are we not drawn onward to new erA, the palindromic (or should that be palin-dramatic?) show from Belgian theatre company Ontroerend Goed challenges us to move forward and not lose hope in a world we continue to destroy – we can, and must, clean up our own mess.
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Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party) (Neilson Nutshell) ★★★★
It’s like How Stella Got Her Groove Back but instead of using Taye Diggs, it uses ketamine.
