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All In This Together: Newman College’s High School Musical 2

REVIEW BY TOM WORSNOP EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Newman College’s joyful production of High School Musical 2 is fun, upbeat, and oozing with nostalgia for 2000s high school drama. The show follows Troy Bolton (Luke Higgins) and his East High Wildcats basketball team, trying to find jobs for the summer break. They all find themselves employed at the Lava Springs resort, owned by the family … Continue reading All In This Together: Newman College’s High School Musical 2

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Earnestly Stylish Fun – Camberwell Grammarians’ The Importance of Being Earnest

REVIEW BY TOM WORSNOP EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Old Camberwell Grammarian Theatre Company’s staging of The Importance of Being Earnest offers a visually delightful rendition of Oscar Wilde’s iconic farce about two upper-class bachelors, named Jack and Algernon. Each are pretending to be a fictional man named ‘Ernest’ in order to win over two women they’ve fallen in love with – Gwendolen and Cecily respectively. … Continue reading Earnestly Stylish Fun – Camberwell Grammarians’ The Importance of Being Earnest

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‘no title’ – But No Less Power

REVIEW BY GRYFF CONNAH EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT OCD often manifests as an amorphous, nameless thing. It metastasises in silence, slowly and surely until, one day, its shapelessness is your whole shape and it is staring you in the face from all sides. I would know; I am living with it.  The experience of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) is something that is very difficult to … Continue reading ‘no title’ – But No Less Power

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RMIT Redacts’ Twelve Angry Jurors: A Thought-Provoking Take On A Classic

REVIEW BY AKSHITA BENNY EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT The tension is already palpable upon entering the confines of the Kaleide Theatre, when the voice over of the judge plays in the space and you can hear from the left the voice of a guard. Twelve jurors file to the stage from the door on stage left, fanning themselves and complaining about the heat. When the … Continue reading RMIT Redacts’ Twelve Angry Jurors: A Thought-Provoking Take On A Classic

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6 Guys An Immigrant Trans Person of Colour Will Date in Melbourne: A Bombastic Success

REVIEW BY TARAS SCURRY EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT This play was simply outstanding. There’s no other way to start the dialogue about this performance than to emphasise just that. It’s quick-witted, well-researched and a performance that has both backbone and expressiveness.  The theatre was the very encapsulation of an intimate setting.  It is a small brick room upstairs at the Motley Bauhaus, with a stage … Continue reading 6 Guys An Immigrant Trans Person of Colour Will Date in Melbourne: A Bombastic Success

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Still: A Moment With Beckett

REVIEW BY BRONTE LEMAIRE EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Adapted for the stage by actor Robert Meldrum and director Richard Murphet, Still takes us through six different prose pieces written by Samuel Beckett. These include Fizzle Still, Variations on a Still Point (which was comprised of Still 3 and Sounds), Stirrings Still, Heard in the Dark and One Evening. What you will quickly notice is that … Continue reading Still: A Moment With Beckett

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“He May Have Been Stupid, But He’s Not Evil”: Lunatix Theatre’s Blackrock

REVIEW BY GRACE DWYER EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Content warning: This play and review contain discussions of rape, murder and gender-based violence.  On an appropriately dark and stormy night, we take the tram to Prahran and walk down a quiet alley to the MC Showroom. It’s a nifty little theatre at the top of several sets of stairs, buzzing with what looks like a full … Continue reading “He May Have Been Stupid, But He’s Not Evil”: Lunatix Theatre’s Blackrock

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The Importance of Being Earnest: Prepare for a Wilde Ride…

REVIEW BY KATYA EWING EDITED BY MYA HELOU Don your necktie and prepare your cucumber sandwiches, for this is not one to miss. RMIT RedActs have knocked it out of Hertfordshire and brought to Kaleide Theatre a slice of Wilde with their rendition of The Importance of Being Earnest. The plot is simple. Jack Worthing (Bodhi Keech) is attempting to live a double life. As … Continue reading The Importance of Being Earnest: Prepare for a Wilde Ride…

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Beetlejuice: The Musical Makes a Home for the Strange and Unusual

REVIEW BY EMMA PARFITT EDITED BY MYA HELOU Green and purple lights glide across the audience of the Regent Theatre. Bright hues refract from mirrors, pulsing onto the curtain. A large neon sign reading ‘Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse’ points to a gap in the curtain where haze, lit in bright green, leeches onto the stage. It’s an enticing sneak peek into the strange and unusual world we … Continue reading Beetlejuice: The Musical Makes a Home for the Strange and Unusual

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Liminality and Longing in The Selkie Project

REVIEW BY JESSICA FANWONG EDITED BY RACHEL THORNBY “I can smell what you did, I can smell it on you…”  Visceral and intimate, Liminal Theatre’s The Selkie Project marks the company’s return with a highly experimental and carefully crafted character study of the selkie.   Created by Georgie Durham (who also performs as the selkie) and directed by Draf Draffin, The Selkie Project is a retelling … Continue reading Liminality and Longing in The Selkie Project

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