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Tandem review: Acrobats play up in interactive game show
This circus theatre hybrid riffs off popular games from Cleudo to Super Mario Bros.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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Canberra life
The audience joins the actors on stage for this Patrick White story
In The Aspirations of Daise Morrow, the cast, the musicians and the audience are on a patch of grass under a canvas representing the sky.
- by Ron Cerabona
Canberra life
Blanc de Blanc is a bawdy bouquet of froth and bubble
The Spiegeltent show Blanc de Blanc isn't perfect but if it's a fun night out of revelry you're after this should fit the bill nicely.
- by Peter Wilkins
Carmen Live or Dead review: Carmen through the picture frame
A musical, hermaphrodite love-child of Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky.
- by Reviewed by John Shand
Performing arts
Review: Bell Shakespeare's impoverished Antony & Cleopatra
Uninspired design, a dearth of glamour and a miscast lead are just some of the shortcomings of this production.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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Performing arts
Review: Flashes of panto as Geli reveals Hitler's incestuous secret
Playwright Enzo Condello turns a Shakespearean hand to Nazi intrigues, but lacks writerly control.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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Performing arts
Sound and silence: Personal straddles autobiographical story
The only hearing member of a deaf family, Jodee Mundy is perfectly placed to open a door to the world of silence.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Still Point Turning: Catherine McGregor's gripping journey to the point of no return
Still Point Turning: The Catherine McGregor Story
- by Joyce Morgan
Arts
'If someone's had a great time, it's all you can ask'
Ensemble Theatres' Mark Kilmurry on why popular plays are "just as worthy as anything you think is influential".
- by Linda Morris
Peter Carey's Harry Joy reborn on stage: but has he really woken up to himself?
Exploring many of the issues playing out in society today, Peter Carey's award-winning 1981 novel was ripe for stage adaptation.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
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Performing arts
Monash's liaisons laid bare in lamentable period play
The great-great-nephew of Sir John Monash, Andrew Joseph, has written a play about the general's romantic skirmishes.
- by Cameron Woodhead