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Refreshingly honest, beautifully hesitant: The Eternally Hopeful make a compelling debut

REVIEWED BY JESS PARKIN EDITED BY CHARLOTTE FRASER The flickering LED lights that greeted me as I entered the low-lit Explosives Factory should have been a sign of what was to come. And being welcomed into what could have been a real-life Indie film set only encouraged my building excitement. I could almost touch the stage as I sat down in the intimate seating bank … Continue reading Refreshingly honest, beautifully hesitant: The Eternally Hopeful make a compelling debut

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Fabio Motta’s Holy Fool Transforms Absurdist Comedy Into a Divine Experience

REVIEWED BY IVY KAYE EDITED BY CHARLOTTE FRASER Directed by Giovanni Fusetti and performed at St. Kilda’s Explosives Factory, Holy Fool is a play that manages to take a person who died exactly 800 years ago and turn him into a message of hope for today, a reminder of the need for compassion in a time where selfishness and materialism runs rampant. It’s also a … Continue reading Fabio Motta’s Holy Fool Transforms Absurdist Comedy Into a Divine Experience

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The immaculate conception of Big Religion

REVIEWED BY KIERA EDELSTEIN EDITED BY CHARLOTTE FRASER Big Corporate wants you to work overtime with no pay. Big Lip-balm doesn’t want you to know that, secretly, it’s making your lips more chapped. Big Religion? Writer/Director Maddi Formosa seems to think it wants you to buy into its system of subservience and piety, of unquestioning devotion, with no questions asked. And yet, in this debut … Continue reading The immaculate conception of Big Religion

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Old dogs speak with new tricks in ‘William Shakespeare’s Reservoir Dogs’

REVIEWED BY KIERA EDELSTEIN EDITED BY CHARLOTTE FRASER The palimpsest of all stories ever, wherein sediments of human experience over millennia each pose fruitful matter for excavation, has delivered us into an age where the only logical answer seems to be adaption. A successful adaption must take old works and reconstructing them to find new meanings and new audiences, while maintaining truthful to its source(s). … Continue reading Old dogs speak with new tricks in ‘William Shakespeare’s Reservoir Dogs’

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Katzenmusik: The Cat dies in this one

REVIEWED BY JADE BREEN EDITED BY RACHEL THORNBY Trigger warning: The cat dies in this one. Well, eighty-five of them to be precise, but who’s counting? Presented by Theatre Works and Paracosm, Tom Fowler’s Katzenmusik turns up the broken radiator, raising a bold middle finger at the all too familiar perils of the housing crisis. Derived from German, Katzenmuzik is defined as a caterwaul; the … Continue reading Katzenmusik: The Cat dies in this one

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Get your game face on: The Wolves are ready to chew out your expectations

REVIEWED BY KIERA EDELSTEIN EDITED BY RACHEL THORNBY There is something appealing about the aesthetic of cleats, pumping athletic music and female-led stories at the moment and, with its epic display of ball skills, blood red uniforms and a team of girls with enough grit to win their soccer tournament, Theatre Works’s The Wolves is no exception.   For examples think of: Melbourne Theatre Company’s ‘Shoelace Chaser’; ‘Good For a Girl’ written by Becky Deeks, which … Continue reading Get your game face on: The Wolves are ready to chew out your expectations

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Sainting Joan: The Baddie in a Bowl Cut, Historically Informative and Entertaining

REVIEWED BY AUDREY MUELLER EDITED BY MIRANDA WILSON Some of the most interesting and captivating original productions are performed in theatres found down dark alleys. Sainting Joan is one of them. After running around the back streets of St Kilda, I finally found Explosive Factory’s theatre. And I’m glad I did, because this original rock musical was exciting at every turn. The narrative opens in … Continue reading Sainting Joan: The Baddie in a Bowl Cut, Historically Informative and Entertaining

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A Captivating Battle Between the Mind and the Heart: Experimenting with Our Body’s Chemical Reactions in THE EFFECT

REVIEWED BY AUDREY MUELLER EDITED BY CHARLOTTE FRASER We often expect enormous acts to transform our lives, but ultimately it all boils down to the small decisions. In Key Conspirators and Theatre Works’ production of The Effect – an award-winning play by Lucy Pebble – we meet Connie and Tristan, two young volunteers who get involved in an anti-depressant drug trial. They expect 4 weeks … Continue reading A Captivating Battle Between the Mind and the Heart: Experimenting with Our Body’s Chemical Reactions in THE EFFECT

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I THOUGHT YOU SAID: What to do when the stars are falling

Review by Mya Helou Edited by Charlotte Fraser Everything is pretty normal if you ignore the fallen star emanating a slow pulsing light in the corner. Set designers Aisha Tabit and Julian Machin create a quintessential petrol station, complete with linoleum flooring, a scuffed-up counter and a shelf stacked with snacks and toiletries to really sell it. Sam (Ally Taueki-Gatt) has already clocked in, stocking … Continue reading I THOUGHT YOU SAID: What to do when the stars are falling

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