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A Vision of The Future Worth Remembering: flatpack art’s Control

REVIEW BY TOM WORSNOP EDITED BY OLIVIA DI GRAZIA Telling three different yet interlinked stories from a far-off future, Control – written by Keziah Warner and presented by flatpack with Theatre Works – offers a powerful dissection of moments where the brutality of control meets the fragility of memories.  Translating a vision of the future into something fit for theatre is a challenge, but flatpack … Continue reading A Vision of The Future Worth Remembering: flatpack art’s Control

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Into the Woods And Back To Our Childhoods

REVIEW BY JESSICA FANWONG EDITED BY RACHEL THORNBY Into the Woods has been among the most popular musicals to be remounted in recent years. With any show that is restaged so often and features storylines most audiences grew up listening to as kids, the challenge is to retell the classic with a new twist. Needless to say, I had high expectations going into this production. … Continue reading Into the Woods And Back To Our Childhoods

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Brothers Bare: A Naked Look At How Fairytales Shape Us

REVIEW BY JESSICA FANWONG EDITED BY OLIVIA DI GRAZIA We think we know the bedtime stories we were fed as kids – but do we really understand them? That is the question Ranting Mime Productions asks in their bold and stirring new work Brothers Bare, presented as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Written by Jessica Fallico and Iley Jones and directed by Fallico, Brothers … Continue reading Brothers Bare: A Naked Look At How Fairytales Shape Us

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When No Becomes Go – An Electrifying Celebration Of NASA’s First Lady Astronaut Trainees

REVIEW BY JESSICA FANWONG EDITED BY RACHEL THORNBY We might all be familiar with Neil Armstrong, the first man to step on the Moon, and his famous line – “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” But amid the political power play of the Space Race at the height of the Cold War, where were the women in the equation?  Written … Continue reading When No Becomes Go – An Electrifying Celebration Of NASA’s First Lady Astronaut Trainees

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A New Home But An Old Message

REVIEW BY GRYFF CONNAH EDITED BY CHARLOTTE FRASER It’s a balmy spring afternoon at North Melbourne’s Meat Market, and I’m queuing to be taken into the venue.  I’ve been in this line before; it’s the line that forms prior to any house inspection in Carlton North or Fitzroy. But this time I’m not here to inspect the grout-work of a fading Collingwood terrace or the … Continue reading A New Home But An Old Message

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Heartbreaking And Heartfelt: The Vessel By Dawn Bamforth

REVIEW BY TOM WORSNOP WITH GUEST WRITER SUZIE WILLIS EDITED BY KATYA EWING Dawn Bamforth’s play The Vessel is an honest and deeply affecting look at the life and struggles of a person living with dementia, and the strained healthcare system that surrounds them. It tells the story of Mary (Suzanne Sandow), a woman who is living with dementia in the palliative care wing of … Continue reading Heartbreaking And Heartfelt: The Vessel By Dawn Bamforth

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The Dirty Little Secrets Of Debby Debauchery

REVIEW BY CHARLOTTE FRASER EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT It’s a cliché, really. Being guided down into a basement in the middle of Collingwood for a one-woman Fringe show. ‘The artist has asked you all to fill this out’ – naturally, there’s audience participation. I pick up the coloured pencil, something I’ve not touched for years, and read the question before me. It’s something to the … Continue reading The Dirty Little Secrets Of Debby Debauchery

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Medusa And The Monsters We Make

REVIEW BY JESSICA FANWONG EDITED BY OLIVIA DI GRAZIA Written and directed by Bronte Lemaire, Medusa is an evocative reclamation of the popular Greek myth, illuminating the gendered violence and macabre power plays often obscured in the age of gods and heroes. The overarching story remains fairly faithful to the canonical tale: at the show’s outset, Medusa (Ruby Grinter) serves as high priestess in Athena’s … Continue reading Medusa And The Monsters We Make

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What Lies Beneath Our Forgetting And Our Remembering?

REVIEW BY CHARLOTTE FRASER EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT It is time to confront the darkness. You and me, here and now. It’s there, it’s calling. It’s time to hear its song and to sing back. Can you hear it?  Sarah Miller’s What Lies Beneath is the song we can sing into the void. The play uses the myth of Persephone’s descent and the adjacent stories … Continue reading What Lies Beneath Our Forgetting And Our Remembering?

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The Weathering Is Earth-Shattering Environmental Storytelling

REVIEW BY EMMA PARFITT EDITED BY AZMY St Kilda is battening down the hatches as the hot and sunny day breaks into wind and rain. It is blowing an absolute gale as I enter Theatre Works and it is clear a storm is brewing. It’s a storm that continues right on through the doors and manifests in The Weathering. The haze is thick; the lights … Continue reading The Weathering Is Earth-Shattering Environmental Storytelling

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