The Fringe Hub has a new, informative feature this year: laminated signs marked to indicate that a performance contains certain types of scenes, such as those showing drug use, or strobe effects, or representations of death. Having seen Attic Erratic’s Tripped, an important advisory is missing: “Viewing this show may totally…
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It’s highly unlikely I’ll ever hear all George Frideric Handel’s extraordinary output of more than 40 operas in performance, especially given that it’s taken Rodelinda almost 300 years since its premiere (at the Kings Theatre Haymarket, London, in 1725) to receive its Melbourne debut in a concert performance last Friday…
Read More![The 39 Steps by Hit Productions.
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I wasn’t familiar with The 39 Steps (the film or this play that’s based on the film) but I had heard an awful lot about it: “Outrageously funny”, “Fast Paced” and “It never fails to make me laugh”. HIT Production’s rendition of the famous comedy was none of those things.…
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Squabbalogic, the independent musical theatre company that kicked off Sydney’s tiny revolution into becoming a place for high-quality boutique musical theatre, has re-located itself to the Reginald at the Seymour Centre and embarked on a new, 2014-2015 season. The first show is Sondheim on Sondheim, a revue featuring what else…
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This piece is an absolute theatrical gem. It is also a piece that could never be done justice by any other medium than live theatre. Set in Sophiatown, a South African shanty town near Johannesburg which was destroyed soon after the story was written, it is a story of devotion…
Read More![Jon English and Simon Gallaher in Spamalot - Harvest Rain
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Last night Harvest Rain opened their flyby season of Monty Python’s spoof musical Spamalot to an obvious fan crowd, complete with standing ovation. Based on the 1975 cult film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the musical adaptation by original Pythonite Eric Idle (Book and Lyrics), and Music (John du…
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AussieTheatre is excited to have 2 double passes to give away to Guilty Pleasures at Chapel off Chapel in Melbourne on Thursday 9 October. Guilty Pleasures is a one-woman show that tells the story of five ordinary people driven to the act of extraordinary violence. Starring Angelique Cassimatis, the show explores how love, passion, jealousy,…
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Post-Post is a surreal comedy. A mixture of slapstick gags (sometimes cringe-worthy), puns and boundless energy from creators-performers Harley Hefford and Carly Milroy. We’re sitting in a crowded little room in front of a set made entirely of paper and tape. Post-Post sets itself in the surreal world of snail…
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It’s the last weekend of the Melbourne Fringe; it’s time to go hard and see as much as you can because when you wake up on Monday, it’ll all be over. And it’ll be time to dive into the Melbourne Festival. Prehistoric Elbow Room and Speakeasy Northcote Town Hall to…
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Just as selling his budget supply bills to the opposition with a majority in the Senate proved an impossible hard sell for Gough Whitlam in 1975, so too was Gough, the play, written and directed by James Cunningham and performed by Warrick Merry for the Melbourne Fringe 2014. Some people…
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The acclaimed new Australian production of Les Miserables will play at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne until December 20 before storming barricades in Perth and Sydney early next year. Final tickets have just been released for the show’s last weeks in Melbourne and it is anticipated that the season will…
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