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A world in the balance: Behind the Veil
Funny, strange and technically thrilling, Behind the Veil builds a richly theatrical world around the extraordinary skills of NICA’s emerging circus artists.
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The abundance of almost nothing: Holy Fool
Exceptional physical comedy opens into a spiritual reckoning in Holy Fool — a wildly funny, profoundly moving and utterly sublime piece of theatre, exquisitely directed by Giovanni Fusetti and performed by Fabio Motta with breathtaking skill, generosity and soul.
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Learning to see: The Memory Mirror
A beautifully nuanced and superbly realised new Australian play, The Memory Mirror reveals its layers with exquisite control. Georgina Luck’s writing, Drew Tingwell’s direction and a stellar ensemble create theatre that is at once playful, mysterious and profoundly affecting.
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Stop: How to Eat Rabbit
In How to Eat Rabbit, two friends burrow away at the end of the world, rationing power, sorting tins, craving chocolate and trying to keep each other alive. Between tenderness, betrayal and a two-headed rabbit, survival is one problem. What makes survival worthwhile is another.
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Hidden a little longer: Beneath the Surface
Moving from lockdown balconies to sibling rivalry, boardroom manoeuvring and an impossible bargain, Edge of the Heart Productions’ four-play collection finds humour, tension and simmering unease in the textures of ordinary lives.
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The making of the pack: Savages
Uncanny, playful and increasingly menacing, Kitan Petkovski’s masterful production of Patricia Cornelius’s Savages watches camaraderie slowly curdle into the ugliest form of male entitlement.
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Smile, we are watching you: Cold War 2.0
Punk, politics, surveillance and pop culture collide in Cold War 2.0, a theatrical barrage where meaning is both made and lost in the noise.
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No safe distance: The Jungle and the Sea
An epic story of war, displacement and moral choice becomes achingly intimate in S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack’s exceptionally powerful production.
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The choreography of attention: Chunky Move’s Time Remaining
Hamilton’s Time Remaining is an exhilaratingly intelligent work: visually assured, formally adventurous, and alive to the peculiar contemporary anxiety of being engulfed by the technological systems of our own making.
Essays
Circles in the water: A credo for theatre criticism
What do I owe myself when I go to the theatre? An essay about attention, expertise, repetition, astonishment, and the kind of critic I hope to become and to remain.
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Some home truths are hard to swallow: Cut Chilli
Wickedly witty, deeply complicated and remarkably tender, Cut Chilli finds comedy, anguish and profound intimacy in the messy politics of family, intercountry adoption and what it means to belong.
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Break of Day: Dignity without innocence
A deeply moving new Australian play about class, care, social mobility and the lives we make within forces we did not choose.