Tag: Sydney Festival
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The Chronicles (Sydney Festival) ★★★★½
Stephanie Lake takes us from womb to tomb in the thrilling dance piece, The Chronicles. I was enthralled.
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Converted (ATYP) ★★½
Converted needs more time to discover what it really is and what it really wants to say.
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William Yang: Milestone (Sydney Festival) ★★★★
Like listening to an older relative repeat a beloved story, there is warmth in the familiarity and a mythic quality to Yang’s retelling.
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Dark Noon (Sydney Festival) ★★★½
Be warned, it’s confronting, and for those in the front row, unexpectedly interactive.
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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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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.
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Tiddas (Belvoir) ★★★
When Anita Heiss’ Tiddas is funny, it’s damn funny, and when it’s didactic, it’s like having wikipedia recited to you. The two tones struggle to co-exist in Heiss’ stage adaptation of her 2014 novel about five friends whose book club becomes a meeting place for ideas, angst and more.
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