Tag: STC
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Golden Blood 黄金血液 (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★
This may be Tong’s playwriting debut but Golden Blood is a terrifically sharp 90 minute two-hander.
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Cost of Living (Sydney Theatre Co.) ★★★½
Cost of Living is not a play about inflation or Coles & Woolies gouging consumers. No, this is Martyna Majok’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning play about four people navigating complex physical, emotional and financial relationships.
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Dracula (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★
Sydney Theatre Company’s Dracula isn’t just theatre, it’s an event and a milestone.
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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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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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The President (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★
Olwen Fouéré and Hugo Weaving star as fascists on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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Into The Shimmering World (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★1/2
Into The Shimmering World uses a seemingly simple man to raise a lot of questions.
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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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Constellations (Sydney Theatre Co.) ★★★★1/2
Written by Nick Payne. Sydney Theatre Company. 28 Jul – 2 Sep, 2023. A beekeeper and an astrophysicist meet and fall in love. A beekeeper and an astrophysicist meet and don’t fall in love. A beekeeper and an astrophysicist meet and fall in love but it’s complicated. Don’t worry, if you search through the multiverse…
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On The Beach (Sydney Theatre Co.) ★★★★1/2
Adapted for the stage by Tommy Murphy. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute. Sydney Theatre Company, Roslyn Packer Theatre. 18 Jul – 12 Aug, 2023. On The Beach opens with a tableaux of 60s beach-side bliss, all pastels, buff bodies and short shorts. Soak in the eye candy because things get darker from here.…