Tag: review
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Switzerland (Ensemble Theatre) ★★★½
I can’t imagine the team at Ensemble Theatre knew that Netflix would drop its long anticipated ‘Ripley’, a new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ at the same time as they had programmed Joanna Murray-Smith’s play Switzerland but synchronicity is a wonderful thing.
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Parade (Seymour Centre) ★★★½
There is a timeliness to director Mark Taylor’s new rendition of Parade that the creative team could not have anticipated when this went into production.
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London: The Musicals
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) ★★★★★ / Standing at the Sky’s Edge ★★★1/2 / Sister Act ★★★ / London Tide ★★1/2 I saw a bit of an odd-ball selection of musicals to be honest. Some were more experimental than others.
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London: The Plays (Part Two)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night ★★★ / For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy ★★★★★ / Remembrance Monday ★★★ / Spirited Away ★★★1/2 This kind of variety is why I love London.
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London: The Cine-theatre
Stranger Things: The First Shadow ★★★★ / The Picture of Dorian Gray ★★★★★ / Opening Night ★★ / ABBA: Voyage ★★★★. The collision of technology and the stage is nothing new but across all the shows I saw in London, a few used the blend of cameras, screens and live performance better than others.
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37 (Melbourne Theatre Company) ★★★
It’s short on nuance but big on short shorts – much like the game of AFL itself.
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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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Shitty (Belvoir 25a) ★★★★
What’s more horrific than turning 30 and looking for love?
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