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The Good Person Recipe: Your Ancestors Probably Didn’t Pass This One Down

Just put the damn teaspoon on the plate, man!   You know when you’ve got a lazy Sunday all to yourself and you decide to experiment in the kitchen with the fettucine alfredo recipe your mum gave you, and you have no idea how it will turn out? That’s what The Good Person Recipe was like, with the appropriate analogy and all that. The show had … Continue reading The Good Person Recipe: Your Ancestors Probably Didn’t Pass This One Down

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A Tasting[s ‘18] of Raw Emotion

The seven-course dinner that was Tastings ’18 Group A brought together seemingly heavy subject matters, usually hidden by the mundanity of the everyday, and emphasised their immense weight. Five stand-alone performances stripped away their existential layers and provided us with a fleeting but intimate glimpse of bare emotion and experience. All seven performances in Tastings reflected different ends of the social and cultural spectrum – … Continue reading A Tasting[s ‘18] of Raw Emotion

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The Biggest Richard: Bollywood Blockbuster

Melbourne University Sri Lankan Students’ Association’s (MUSLSA) annual charity play, The Biggest Richard, felt much like watching a Bollywood movie in the theatre. With popcorn, brownies and drinks sold personally from seat-to-seat, this show brings forth nostalgic feels for any South Asian, anywhere. It wasn’t just the experience, though; The Biggest Richard had all the elements and characteristics found in a typical Indian Bollywood movie: a three … Continue reading The Biggest Richard: Bollywood Blockbuster

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