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After a huge and costly glow-up, the largest stage in the southern hemisphere is ready for play (opens the original)
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Two and a half years since closing its doors, Melbourne’s renamed Ian Potter State theatre is back. Don’t be fooled by the fact that it, kind of, looks the same We are standing on the vast, empty stage of Victoria’s newly refurbished State theatre – days before its official reopening and two and a half years since it closed its doors to the public – as we wait for the curtain to rise. Normally we’d be facing the other direction, but this time we aren’t anticipating what’s on this enormous stage
The Homecoming review â misogyny, social upheaval and male anxiety ⦠Pinter has never felt so urgent (opens the original)
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Athenaeum II, MelbourneWith a top notch-cast, this Australian Shakespeare Company production never strains for relevance; it lets the audience do the work UK playwright Harold Pinter was the master of a menace that sits so close to the surface, it forms lumps in the carpet. Revolving around intimate domestic dynamics warped by unseen but dreadfully felt forces of animosity and repression, his plays have never lost their power to unsettle and suggest. The Homecoming premiered in 1965 during a tim
Arj Barker: âIâm socially not wired the same as other peopleâ (opens the original)
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The US-Australian comedian on ambition, grieving the death of his oldest friend and âthe most incredible mystery in the worldâ Arj Barker doesnât answer questions the way other people do. When we meet outside a cafe in the inner-city suburb of Richmond and I ask if he lives locally, he shuffles slightly, stops walking and looks directly at me as if heâs about to be searingly honest, then fudges an answer and mumbles. âMy dogs live here, so Iâm here a lot ⦠is how I like to say it.â
The Nightline review â listening to messages from anonymous callers is an odd, affecting experience (opens the original)
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Malthouse, MelbourneImmersive, self-directed theatre work by Roslyn Oades and Bob Scott is only 40 minutes long, but the way it allows us to connect with strangers is as necessary as ever Last time it came to Melbourne, in a tiny utilitarian space tucked into a dead-end laneway in the CBD, it ran for one night, shut down early after its opening by one of the many lockdowns the city endured during Covid. Bleak times suit this odd, affecting piece, which gains much of its hushed power from the sen
Break of Day review â Kat Stewart is superb in this deeply moving portrait of Australiaâs working class (opens the original)
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Malthouse Theatre, MelbourneSet in an unnamed packing warehouse in a regional town, this play could easily have been patronising socioeconomic cosplay â but it is heartfelt and honest Too few Australian plays deal with issues of poverty, class and structural inequality, so this new work by playwright Steve Rodgers should be welcomed regardless of its quality. That it is also considered, subtle and deeply moving should be cause for celebration. The theatre can be overwhelmed by the solipsism of
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