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Think feminism has been and gone? It's time for a 'Revolt'

Think feminism has been and gone? It's time for a 'Revolt'

The play is the most confronting piece anyone in the cast has performed.

  • by Alix Foley

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Laughing in the face of death
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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
Love review: Cornelius delivers raw tale of damaged souls from beyond the pale

Love review: Cornelius delivers raw tale of damaged souls from beyond the pale

It was love at first sight when Tanya saw Annie across a crowded jail.

  • by Joyce Morgan
Musical invasion from the world's military coming to Sydney next year

Musical invasion from the world's military coming to Sydney next year

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo will play ANZ Stadium in Sydney next year.

  • by Nathanael Cooper
Rebuilding bridges between art and work
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Rebuilding bridges between art and work

The Bridge Projects involves a unique interplay between life and art.

  • by Cameron Woodhead
Award-winning Broken proves strength of its script
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Award-winning Broken proves strength of its script

Winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Drama, Mary Anne Butler’s Broken is a slippery and unsettling three-hander.

  • by Cameron Woodhead
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The difference between directing a funeral and directing theatre
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The difference between directing a funeral and directing theatre

In The Director , Turnbull and Thoms explore many elements of the death industry, including the smell of a crematorium, the tools of the mortuary and when to drive a tractor into a chapel.

  • by Anne-Marie Peard
The Serpent's Teeth review: A lament for the living after war

The Serpent's Teeth review: A lament for the living after war

This meditation on war's forgotten victims is as timeless as it is timely in a month in which we have marked the centenary of the end of the Great War.

  • by Joyce Morgan
Supernatural feminist fable comes of age
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Supernatural feminist fable comes of age

Feminist parable, supernatural quest and queer coming of age story combine in this striking new play with an offbeat edge.

  • by Cameron Woodhead
Eurydice review: Upside down in the underworld

Eurydice review: Upside down in the underworld

Eurydice

  • by Joyce Morgan
The Wharf Revue review: New laughs still lurk beneath the old scabs of politics

The Wharf Revue review: New laughs still lurk beneath the old scabs of politics

The 2018 Wharf Revue, now minus Phil Scott, can make you laugh until you cry

  • by John Shand