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Playlist turns up the volume on next generation of feminists
While many dismiss pop music as superficial fluff, Powerhouse Youth Theatre Fairfield is using it to reflect on deeper issues.
- by Nicole Elphick
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Folk review: Heartstring-pulling mechanisms not even slightly disguised
Tom Wells undermines his own play with clunky narrative mechanisms
- by John Shand
Winyanboga Yurringa review: Women of the sun emerge from the shadows
Winyanboga Yurringa begins and ends in ritual. In between unfold the stories of six contemporary Indigenous women connected by kin but vastly different in backgrounds and ages.
- by Joyce Morgan
Sex & relationships
Rachael Beck: 'I’ve fallen in love with every man I’ve played alongside'
The actor on her career and the men who have influenced her.
- by Jane Rocca
Small Mouth Sounds Review: Rare return to silent comedy
Bess Wohl takes us into a spiritual retreat where the characters are itching to speak.
- by John Shand
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Arts
Great comic talent squandered in futile devised theatre work
Every one of the five actors in The Temple has shone with comic brilliance elsewhere, but not on this stage.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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The Honouring: Finding catharsis in an abyss of suffering
At the YIRRAMBOI festival, Jack Sheppard submerges himself in grief and comes out with something new.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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A teenage rebel without a cause
Finegan Kruckemeyer's latest young protagonist for the stage has a considerable axe to grind but we never learn why.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Sydney Theatre Company
Rebel Wilson withdraws from Sydney theatre show due to 'scheduling conflict'
The 39-year-old comedienne was slated to star as Maureen Folan in the November production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
- by Nathanael Cooper
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Louis Nowra's Cosi stands test of time in outstanding new production
The language and sexual politics may be outdated, but MTC captures the timeless qualities in this Australian classic.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Skip the headlines – read a play a day during the election
A group of Australian playwrights is posting short plays online inspired by the 2019 federal election.
- by Hannah Francis