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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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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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The Kinky Gay Masterpiece Of Jake Stewart’s Beauty And The Beast

REVIEW BY BRONTE LEMAIRE EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Content warning: this review contains mentions of suicide and sexual abuse.  I’m not sure exactly what I expected when I walked into Theatre Works to see Beauty and the Beast. It looked kinky. It looked gay. So somehow, I didn’t see the 15-minute video of a man masturbating projected onto the back wall coming. It was very … Continue reading The Kinky Gay Masterpiece Of Jake Stewart’s Beauty And The Beast

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F*ck a Duck That’s Funny – The Importance of Being Earnest as Performed by Three F*cking Queens and a Duck 

REVIEW BY ELLA CALLOW-SUSSEX EDITED BY AZMY It is the first night of Fringe. On the way to Theatre Works I read out the blurb for The Importance of Being Earnest as Performed by Three F*cking Queens and a Duck to my guest so we could get a sense of what we were about to watch. The blurb proclaimed that “good taste and political correctness … Continue reading F*ck a Duck That’s Funny – The Importance of Being Earnest as Performed by Three F*cking Queens and a Duck 

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A Fryer Fuelled Fever Dream of the Highest Order: Little Hall’s Work But This Time Like You Mean It

REVIEW BY ELLA CALLOW-SUSSEX EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT It started immediately. From the moment the audience walked into the Guild Theatre, the performers were already onstage. Droning lobby music filled a fast-food store in all its grease-stained life sucking glory. Performers were flipping burgers, making Tik Toks behind the counter and playing stack cup all while hiding from a roaming manager. It is an environment many … Continue reading A Fryer Fuelled Fever Dream of the Highest Order: Little Hall’s Work But This Time Like You Mean It

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We Had A Moment, A Marvellous Moment At Colour And Light: The Art Of Sondheim

REVIEW BY OLIVIA DI GRAZIA EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Standing shoulder-to-shoulder in the compact Theatre Works foyer, a crowd of buzzing theatre-goers gather for the sold-out opening night of Colour and Light: The Art of Sondheim, the newest offering from Watch This, Australia’s first and only Sondheim repertory company. Weaving a beautiful tapestry of the theatre giant’s immortal contributions to the musical theatre canon with … Continue reading We Had A Moment, A Marvellous Moment At Colour And Light: The Art Of Sondheim

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Has Anyone Checked On The Sixth Formers? Lunatix’s Punk Rock

REVIEW BY ELLA CALLOW-SUSSEX EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Punk Rock is a play by British playwright Simon Stephens, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. First performed in 2009, it follows the lives of seven private school kids in sixth form – their equivalent of Year 12 – as they prepare for, or neglect, their A level mock exams. … Continue reading Has Anyone Checked On The Sixth Formers? Lunatix’s Punk Rock

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MJ: The Musical Won’t Stop Until You’re Dancing Too

REVIEW BY CHARLOTTE FRASER EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT ‘Study the greats and become greater’ – these scribbled words stand out among the collage of Michael Jackson’s handwritten notes projected onto a scrim. Musicians and dancers file casually onto the stage as the audience is still chatting and drinking. It’s opening night. Excitement and anticipation are buzzing through Her Majesty’s Theatre. In a room of glitter … Continue reading MJ: The Musical Won’t Stop Until You’re Dancing Too

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Numa and Karl: A Profoundly Emotional History

REVIEW BY AZMY AZURITE EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT “Are you sure you’re ready for the backlash?” “Of course!” “He’s not.” Numa and Karl: The Extraordinary Man That He Was is the story of Karl Henrich Ulrichs, the first man in history to ever come out as gay. He invented his own word for the phenomenon—urning, its roots in Aphrodite’s epithet Urania, which emphasises Aphrodite’s more … Continue reading Numa and Karl: A Profoundly Emotional History

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