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Melbourne Fringe's gender benders, suspenders and upenders
Faux Fringe Fest and Lashes offer much more than your traditional drag show.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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Friends' Ross & Rachel, 10 years on
Melbourne Fringe Festival: Jessica Stanley's darkly comic play explores pop-culture relationships and how they impact our own.
- by Eleanor Marsh
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Homage to horror flicks a gory, glorious night out
Jakop Ahlbom's Horror will please even those who don't consider themselves a fan of the genre.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Evita review: Don't cry for Tina Arena's timely Eva
Take a woman with brains, star power and political ambition and what do you get? Not a safe seat in Federal Parliament, that's for sure. What you do get is a show with renewed currency about the rise and demise of one of Latin America's most intriguing and controversial figures, Eva Peron.
- by Joyce Morgan
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Fresh new comedy speaks to the zeitgeist
Amelia Roper's Lottie in the Late Afternoon mixes well known actors with rising talent.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Accidental Death of an Anarchist review: Truth flies out window tied to body
Dario Fo knew all about fake news 50 years ago.
- by John Shand
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Tao Po review: Stories of life after death
As the death toll mounts in Philippine's President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, the rippling stories behind that toll sometimes go untold.
- by Nicole Precel
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A story for Melburnians with a nostalgic bent
Wil Greenway's ode to Melbourne weather, loneliness and connection is playing to its home audience this September.
- by Emma Koehn
Luna Gale review: Gale-force winds shift the moral sands
Who is most capable of raising a child? The crystal meth-using parents or the sober grandmother?
- by Joyce Morgan
The Merchant of Venice review: The quality of comedy is somewhat strained
An impotent Shylock makes for a comedy-drama with the drama expunged.
- by John Shand
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The unbearable rightness of being young and silly
The brilliant comic talents of the trio known as post are on glorious display in this slice of absurdist and scatological nostalgia.
- by Cameron Woodhead