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'Hamlet's Jacob Colins-Levy, a young man with brown hair and a black singlet carrying a skull.
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Theatre review: Hamlet, fortyfivedownstairs

A few directorial choices let down this otherwise fine contemporary interpretation of 'Hamlet'.

A black and white photo of a man in the show 'Renfield.'. His mouth is, however, bloody and red.
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Festival review: Renfield, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

A solo show that took full advantage of Edinburgh's Gothic ambience.

A publicity image for Belvoir's 2025 adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. A dark-haired woman in a purple jacket, a red-haired woman in a period dress, and a dark-haired young man in a ruffled shirt and frock coat look towards the camera. Golden glitter showers down around them.
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Grief, hilarity, classics and culture are celebrated in Belvoir’s 2025 season

Artistic Director Eamon Flack has launched a season of nine plays for Belvoir’s 2025 subscription season.

A group of dancers, all in black, the women in stockings and the men in trousers, all holding top hats in the air, in the production of 'A Chorus Line.'
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Musical Review: A Chorus Line, National Theatre

A new remount of a classic musical that still holds up well.

Jessica Clarke, with her fair hair blown awry and wearing a brown jacket in production of 'Iphigenia in Splott.'
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Theatre Review: Iphigenia in Splott, Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre

A solo performance about deprivation and the socially marginalised.

A teenage boy with dark hair and an oversized sweater is hanging onto a railing. You're the Man by Paul Mitchell at La Mama Courthouse.
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Theatre Review: You’re The Man, La Mama Courthouse

Domestic and intergenerational violence are played out in this production.

A older woman wrapped up in a black shawl is standing on the right hand side of the frame. There is a beam of white light on the left. Mother with Noni Hazlehurst.
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Theatre review: Mother, Arts Centre Melbourne

A powerhouse performance from Noni Hazlehurst, but the depiction of mothers experiencing addiction may leave a bad taste in your…

Four men and three women are walking on wooden boards of differing heights. They are dressed in casual clothes. In a Nutshell, The Poetry of Violence by Bell Shakespeare.
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Theatre review: In a Nutshell: The Poetry of Violence, Neilson Nutshell, Pier 2/3

In its latest Shakespearean mash-up, Bell Shakespeare explores the nature of violence in the Bard’s work.

Four figures dressed like cowboys emerge from a yellow-lit haze. A woman kneels in the foreground over a backpack. This is a scene from the 2024 production of NORPA's 'Wildskin'. Photo: Kurt Petersen.
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From proscenium arch to place-based: reimagining Wildskin

Adapting an existing work for an entirely new setting is not without its challenges, but overcoming such challenges leads to…

A young blonde woman in denim jacket (Ashleigh Hermann) is staring across a table at an older man (Daniel Mitchell) in 'Blackbird.'
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Theatre review: Blackbird, Wentworth Falls School of Arts

Exploring the devastating power of trauma and guilt, director Paulina Kelly’s production of ‘Blackbird’ was uncomfortable, shocking – and brilliant. 

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