turandot

Bold, vivid and startlingly original this is a spectacular revival of the excellent Graeme Murphy production.
Puccini’s opera was left incomplete at his death in 1924 and was finished by his colleague Franco Alfano in 1926.

It is a mythical

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a history of everything

A HISTORY OF EVERYTHING, directed by Alexander Devriendt, is an innovative production from the Belgian Theatre Company, Ontroerend Goed.

The title says it all with ‘Everything’ going back to the big bang,albeit in a condensed form with the production running

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meow meow’s ‘little match girl

I wasn’t a fan of Meow Meow’s latest show LITTLE MATCH GIRL, after Hans Christian Anderson’s 1845 fairy-tale, performed in Hyde Park’s famous Spiegeltent.

It was just something about the style of presentation that didn’t feel right to me. Here

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short and sweet 2012 week 3

And six more weeks to go. After the hype of the first two weeks week three comes on a sudden low. Low in content and lower in audience numbers. Let’s face the facts. 180 new short plays in the ten

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la soiree

Opening with Le Gateau Chocolat’s glam version of Nessum Dorma and following with the acrobatics & striptease of The English Gents almost indicates the range of acts in this show at the Sydney Opera House. There is an entertaining and

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la putyka

Normally we do not quote other reviewers. In this case, it is necessary to point out that not everything on paper is anything but the truth.

In her review for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Charlotte Smith writes: LA PUTYKA is

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i’m your man

There is a lot to enjoy about this high energy play, created & directed by Roslyn Oades.

As the audience enters they are greeted by the sounds of speed balls, punching bags and shuffling feet & the smell of heat

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i am a camera

William Yangs’s latest full length work I AM A CAMERA, his eleventh in a career spanning over twenty years, is currently being performed as part of this year’s Sydney Festival.

Yang’s style of presentation of stories from his life is

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tinker tailor soldier spy

Tinkering with a literary masterpiece and a well loved television miniseries may seem to be cinematic suicide but the big screen adaptation of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (M) is a triumph.

Tailored from a sterling script by Bridget O’ Connor

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never did me any harm

Kate Champion’s piece NEVER DID ME ANY HARM is a depth charge exploration into the whole world of the joys, challenges and frustrations of parenthood in the year 2012.

I loved NEVER DID ME ANY HARM, it just kept coming

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