Theatre reviews
'Riveting, unapologetic': The Street's young actors bring their best in 'Revolt'
'Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.' is not comfortable theatre.
- by Peter Wilkins
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Storyplace review: energetic program crosses many genres
This year’s offering from NAISDA Dance College focuses on two young Indigenous choreographers.
- by Jill Sykes
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Arts
80 Minutes No Interval: Curses and twists even the critics will love
This brisk black comedy has hardly any fat on it, plenty of pleasing twists and moments of schlock horror, and curtain call arrives on the knocker.
- by Cameron Woodhead
City life
Danielle Cormack Rakes in the applause in her Queensland Theatre debut
Logie Award winning actor Danielle Cormack is no stranger to public admiration, yet the star admits there's nothing quite like the buzz and energy you receive from an engaged theatre audience.
- by Susan Hetherington
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Rebuilding bridges between art and work
The Bridge Projects involves a unique interplay between life and art.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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Award-winning Broken proves strength of its script
Winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Drama, Mary Anne Butler’s Broken is a slippery and unsettling three-hander.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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The difference between directing a funeral and directing theatre
In The Director , Turnbull and Thoms explore many elements of the death industry, including the smell of a crematorium, the tools of the mortuary and when to drive a tractor into a chapel.
- by Anne-Marie Peard
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Supernatural feminist fable comes of age
Feminist parable, supernatural quest and queer coming of age story combine in this striking new play with an offbeat edge.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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Canberra life
'Superbly cocky': McKenna shines in Rep's 'One Man, Two Guvnors'
Never mind the plot. It’s the energy that matters in this great end of year show.
- by Alanna Maclean
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Phillips directs hilarious Twelfth Night for Melbourne Theatre Company
Simon Phillips’ production of Twelfth Night remains highly anticipated, as anyone who has seen him direct Shakespeare for the MTC will know.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Things go wrong in Catherine Tate's live show - but not to its detriment
The performance essentially plays like an extended version of a TV episode - with bloopers.
- by Craig Platt