the lunch hour

This show is for all theatre people who have worked in a ticketing box office/call centre with annoying, idiotic customers. It has an excellent, very strong cast who are terrific, but the play is somewhat confused, jumbled and artificial and

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met series 5

Saturday night’s concert, MET SERIES 5, opened with a premiere of David Montgomery’s Air and the Void. There is a great sense of expectation in hearing a new work and this was increased by having the composer presenting and explaining

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the sea project

The World War 2 refugee experience that saw many Jewish people flee their home country and make a new life for themselves in a new land was disorientating and gut-wrenching- kind of like finding oneself washed up on a foreign

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water

Water molecules, we are told at the commencement of this Theatre as Aquarium experience, are amicable atoms which like attachment and are tactile and societal. Quite a contrast to the techno set and situations we are presented with in this

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water

Water is a precious but potentially dangerous commodity. This stage production follows of a handful of characters that are all drowning to some degree.

The overlapping narratives presented are disappointingly somewhat hackneyed with regards to originality of subject matter. However,

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the summer of the southern wild

THE BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (M) is an extraordinary film, a tempestuous magic realist movie with all the turbulence of a force 10 tornado generated by a hurricane performance by Quvenzhané Wallis as Hushpuppy, a sassy six year old

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damsels in distress

Idiosyncratic savant. That’s how I’d describe film- maker Whit Stillman.

From his feature film debut, METROPOLITAN to his fourth and latest film DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, I have been a fan. Original, audacious and always Whit-smart, Stillman’s movies are stars that

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en atendant

Challenging and provocative, this is a luminous, shimmering, extraordinary combination of fourteenth century music and contemporary dance .

This is the first time the Biennale has presented a dance company as part of its program and what a thrill it

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last will

Originally titled Nobel’s Last Will, LAST WILL (M) is the latest cinematic realisation in a spate of Scandinavian crime thrillers based on Nordic novels.

Like the most celebrated of these ice cold conspiracy and corruption capers, The Millennium Trilogy, LAST

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lore

This is an engrossing film about five children from a Nazi family fleeing Germany at the end of the Second World War. They are assisted by a young Jewish man, Thomas, in a superbly understated performance by Kai Malina. Lore,

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