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Divinity: A Demonstration of Flare’s Impressive Community

Hearing ushers detailing how they volunteered just to nab a ticket, and witnessing multiple wannabe audience members be gently turned away as they are informed the performance is sold out, it’s clear that Flare have built a passionate community that is united by a love of dance. Their mid-year showcase, Divinity, is an exciting re-introduction with a focus on developing emerging choreographers as they build … Continue reading Divinity: A Demonstration of Flare’s Impressive Community

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Dialog Spotlight: Short Straw Theatre Company – “The Effect”

Interview by: Oscar Lidgerwood Two weeks away from opening their debut production of “The Effect”, Short Straw committee members, Charlotte Rogers, Hazel Pigrum, and Freddie Carew-Reid meet with the Dialog to discuss the importance of student theatre, and open up about their experience starting their own company. Charlotte: We all met through Lord of the Flies with Four Letter Word last semester and decided to … Continue reading Dialog Spotlight: Short Straw Theatre Company – “The Effect”

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High Praise for Newman Theatre: The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon

Reviewed by: Ellie Dean In 2023, we have been blessed when it comes to fairy tale theatre. The premiere season of a new Australian take on the Cinderella story, Midnight, was lighting up the stage of the Comedy Theatre until just a few weeks ago, and is expected by many to announce a tour (or something even bigger) very soon. Even globally, crossing borders to … Continue reading High Praise for Newman Theatre: The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon

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LOVEMACHINE: A Striking Presentation of Modern Love

Reviewed by: Oscar Lidgerwood “My love for you was greater than my wisdom” To love is to hurt. It’s to break, and to heal. To love is knowing when it’s time to go. Through a striking blend of theatricality and a humane vulnerability, LOVEMACHINE finds a beautiful intimacy beneath the complexities of contemporary relationships, underpinning the timelessness of theatre. LOVEMACHINE delivers a nuanced mix of classic with a … Continue reading LOVEMACHINE: A Striking Presentation of Modern Love

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Dialog Spotlight: Benjamin Nichol

Interviewed by: Oscar Lidgerwood Ahead of his upcoming run of kerosene & SIRENS this August at fortyfivedownstairs, VCA graduate Benjamin Nichol sits down with The Dialog to discuss his creative process and grants us insight into his life as performer, writer, director, and true theatrical all-rounder. Right now, you’re really doing it all – writing, directing, and performing in the upcoming kerosene & SIRENS double … Continue reading Dialog Spotlight: Benjamin Nichol

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The Historical Hilarity of “Underneath Ms Archer”

Reviewed by: Molly Lidgerwood Editor: Sophia Zikic Louise Siversen and Peter Houghton’s time travel comedy Underneath Ms Archer intersects the complexities of the twenty-first century with the brutality of the Middle Ages, ultimately providing a hysterical, riotous, and dynamic 95-minute spectacle that is not to be missed. Set in contemporary London, the play depicts the consequences of Kelly Archer’s (Louise Siversen) controversial decision, as a … Continue reading The Historical Hilarity of “Underneath Ms Archer”

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Olivia Ruggiero: Down Under’s Own “Broadway Diva”

Reviewed by: Sophie King Editor: Oscar Lidgerwood The Wizard of Oz, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserable, Come From Away, West Side Story. A quick hour of heartbreak, hope, love, despair, laughter and grief that one could only receive from a one-woman cabaret. Directed by Carly Fisher, Broadway Diva is Olivia Ruggiero’s beautiful love letter to the drama and passion of musical theatre.  The eclectic, … Continue reading Olivia Ruggiero: Down Under’s Own “Broadway Diva”

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“Emotional, Gripping, and Cathartic”: MUSC’s Patroclus and Achilles

Reviewed by: Oscar Hales Editor: Sophia Zikic As an aspiring historian, I know too well the painful phenomenon of treating historical homosexual couples as “very good friends.” Given their ashes were mixed together so they could be together in death, it seems downright insane to treat Patroclus and Achilles as “roommates”. Yet this is just what Shakespeare did, not even mentioning it in Troilus and Cressida, his telling … Continue reading “Emotional, Gripping, and Cathartic”: MUSC’s Patroclus and Achilles

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A Gloriously Kooky Stay with Trinity College’s ‘The Addams Family’

Reviewed by: Sophie King Editor: Oscar Lidgerwood Let me introduce you to the Addams Family.  One loves to be tortured, one solely converses in grunts, one’s in love with the moon, and all are a strange assortment of people who embrace the macabre and the eerie.  An absurd, chaotic bunch of people, who are family.  A very weird family.   But I suppose, aren’t all?  I knew very … Continue reading A Gloriously Kooky Stay with Trinity College’s ‘The Addams Family’

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Lord of the Flies: FLW Invigorate Audiences in Classic Adaptation

Reviewed by: Simon Brownjohn Editor: Sophia Zikic Four Letter Word Theatre’s adaptation of Lord of the Flies invites audiences to enter the world of eleven schoolboys stranded on a desolate island, where the only guarantee is paranoia and destruction. This two-act work, presented in the Guild Theatre, revisits William Golding’s 1954 novel to explore the ever-relevant dichotomy of stability and chaos. Although the boys identify … Continue reading Lord of the Flies: FLW Invigorate Audiences in Classic Adaptation

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