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Barkly Theatre’s Gruesome Playground Injuries: Thankfully Only Emotionally Gut-wrenching

REVIEWED BY KIT WILLS EDITED BY AZMY Content Warning: The play Gruesome Playground Injuries, as well as this review, contains reference to self-harm, graphic imagery of physical wounds and blood. The play also contains references to vomit, suicide, death, ableist language, trauma and allusions to sexual abuse/assault. As a squeamish person, entering the Motley Bauhaus to watch a play titled Gruesome Playground Injuries filled me … Continue reading Barkly Theatre’s Gruesome Playground Injuries: Thankfully Only Emotionally Gut-wrenching

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Cake, Crinoline and Colonial Sins at Picnic

Barkly Theatre gets off to a sinister, spell-binding start with their debut production. Picnic at Hanging Rock would be a bold choice for any debut. Published coinciding with the 1967 First Nations referendum, Joan Lindsay’s carefully manicured novel sculpts a world in turmoil. Four schoolgirls, perfect Anglo-Australian citizens, disappear from a Valentines’ trip to Hanging Rock; two are never found. Lindsay’s curlicued prose chronicles the … Continue reading Cake, Crinoline and Colonial Sins at Picnic

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