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Sydney Festival: Rizo, Prizmatism
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Cabaret requires intimacy. It’s hard to create in a room where the front half is set with lamp-lit bistro tables and chairs and the rear is a grandstand. This was the challenge set for Rizo (Amelia Rose Zirin-Brown) for her second Sydney Festiva… -
Sydney Festival: Overflow
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Providing a rare look into the life of a young transgender woman, Overflow was written by internationally acclaimed writer and one of the UK's most prominent trans voices, Travis Alabanza. Alabanza’s script is funny, fra… -
The Strong Charmion
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"Strength should be an attribute of all humanity. It's not a gift that belongs solely to the male of the species." - Jan Todd: First Woman to Deadlift 400 Pounds Life under the big top isn't easy, the tent goes up and the tent comes… -
Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World is clever, confounding and thrilling. The ultra-modern multi-media theatre piece is fast moving, vocally and visually. Blink and you’ll miss an important piece of information. … -
The Ideal Life
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If the National Art School (NAS) has piqued your interest about Chinese and Chinese-Australian artists, check out Vermilion Art next. This is a selling art gallery in Walsh Bay with a focus on Chinese art. Taking their cue from … -
Sydney Festival: An Evening Without Kate Bush
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An Evening Without Kate Bush is a cabaret show by UK singer-performer Sarah-Louise Young paying homage to musical icon Kate Bush. If you don’t know who Kate Bush is then this probably isn’t the show for you. But fish … -
Sydney Festival: In Our Time
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Jackie McMillan reviews In Our Time: Four decades of art from China and beyond, a free exhibition at the National Art School’s gallery. Part of Sydney Festival. -
Malevo
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Sydney Opera House Concert Hall felt ripe and ready for the Argentine men of Malevo last night. When the all-male troupe took to the stage, they were hooting and hollering before anything much had happened at all. Mind you, the da… -
Tiddas: Sydney Festival Blak Out
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Tiddas opens with the cast making their way to the stage carrying books, wine and a plate of sandwiches, chatting amongst themselves. It is a warm start setting the tone for a play about sisterhood. Set in Bris-Vegas, Tidd… -
Sydney Festival: Are we not drawn onward to new erA
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If you caught World Without Us (Sydney Festival 2018), you know Belgium’s Ontroerend Goed theatre company seek to challenge. Risk taking theatre can be uncomfortable. Director Alexander Devriendt is ever the provocateur. In Are … -
Tongpop's Great Expectations
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Telly Tuita’s obsession with costumes and masks makes his first Australian solo exhibition, Tongpop’s Great Expectations, fun and accessible. There’s a darkness underlying the colourful characters though, stemming from the artist’s life, d… -
Sydney Festival: Il Tabarro
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Summer. Sydney. Festival. Three of my favourite words combine to make January my favourite month of the year. No need for New Year resolutions. My annual challenge is to attend one event each day for the duration of the Sydney Festival… -
Sydney Festival: White Gold
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Despite the glitzy name, White Gold skips over spangles and takes circus back to its roots: a band of travelling troubadours who can fit their whole show on the back of an ox cart. Performed by Phare, The Cambodian Circus, … -
Sydney Festival: Smashed The Nightcap
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If you’re looking for a wild and a little bit naughty, late night adventure, Smashed: The Nightcap will certainly satisfy. The Sydney Festival show is a femme-fronted mixture of cabaret, circus and drag. Featuring a live… -
Sydney Festival 2024: Bananaland
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Confession: musicals aren’t really my thing. While others lean in when they hear the telltale inflection that a character is about to burst into song, I tend to sigh and wish the plot would move along. The boredom might be, in part, from the way… -
Anatomy Of A Fall
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On paper Anatomy Of A Fall reads like any other crime thriller. A husband dies, wife is pinned for the murder, and we spend the majority of the film guessing did she or didn't she commit the crime. Having taken out the coveted Pal… -
Dream Scenario
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What is it about fame that has so many people craving the limelight? Is it the lure of money, popularity, adoration, devotion; it seems anyone these days can be famous. One of Life's most famous quotes is "In the future everyone will have their 15… -
The White Mermaid
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The White Mermaid is the most totally fabulous 2023 holidays pantomime by Trevor Ashley and co. now performing at the Seymour Centre Sydney. Before you read on, The White Mermaid (an erudite and extremely funny mash up of c… -
Swan Lake ~ The Australian Ballet
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For the final show of the year, Australian Ballet Artistic Director David Hallberg chose the classic and perhaps one of the most well-known stories, Swan Lake. Principals Benedicte Bemet and Joseph Caley dance the title roles. Swa… -
Rouge
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Christine Ibrahim (Cirque Songstress) cuts a magnificent silhouette in a flame red ball gown. Showing operatic training, she sings live with red smoke billowing out behind her on a stage painted in blood red. It’s hard to take your eyes off her …