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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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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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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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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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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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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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