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No false notes in tale of family reunited by grief
Music by Mark Seymour weaves gently through Red Stitch's nuanced domestic drama.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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A pool on the Yarra? 90 Melbourne designs showcased in Hong Kong
Melbourne is the sister city to this year's Business of Design Week in Hong Kong.
- by Ray Edgar
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Bloc Party remixes seminal album with a bang
The British group performed their seminal album Silent Alarm in full ... backwards.
- by Michael Harry
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Chamber orchestra ends year with assured, crowd-pleasing program
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra flowed, mostly, through a program of Bach favourites.
- by Clive O'Connell
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Music reviews
Queenscliff Music Festival keeps up the good-time feel
Unpretentious but not lacking in talent, the festival is relaxed and happy.
- by Hannah Francis
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Fine showcase for MSO
They don’t get more classic than the opening and closing works on this latest program from the MSO.
- by Clive O'Connell
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Arts
80 Minutes No Interval: Curses and twists even the critics will love
This brisk black comedy has hardly any fat on it, plenty of pleasing twists and moments of schlock horror, and curtain call arrives on the knocker.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Arts
How do the parties' arts policies stack up in Victoria's election?
The arts are not a high priority in the upcoming election.
- by Andrew Bock
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Laughing in the face of death
It's a painfully slow piece of absurd theatre, but also painfully funny.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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Trip to the unknown: Mills DJs a sci-fi symphony
Techno legend Jeff Mills takes his show off the stage and into new spaces.
- by Eleanor Marsh
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Rave for kids (and parents) that substitutes Wiggles for Daft Punk
The music is pumping, there's bright lights and a smoke machine. But this rave isn't like others - here the revellers are as young as three months
- by Zoe Wilson