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05/10/2017

ALWAYS WILL BE

On the lands of The Kulin Nations, our fine city built. Each year in solidarity and recognition of a culture that existed here for thousands of year, Tanderrum,  a ceremony of the five clans of the Central Kulin Nation, marks the beginning of what is unquestionably Australia’s premier arts event, Melbourne Festival. Having become over the…
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04/10/2017

THE GRACEFUL GIRAFFE

A production by VCA, The Graceful Giraffe Cannot Become A Monkey is a stinging indictment of European colonialism. Penned way back in 1966 by Ogot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol here made modern and adapted for the stage by local independent maker,  Steve RE Pereira, Joined by this local luminary are performers  Caroline Muchineripi and Sami Obama. With the Melbourne…
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02/10/2017

PO PO MO CO

Melbourne’s Po Po Mo Co are an experimental queer comedy troupe, with a twist. If their show at Melbourne Fringe was any guide, the troupe is onto something. Entitled Recreation and Leisure, the show featured in the Lithuanian Club during the festival’s final week. A potent brew of circus, drag, comedy an burlesque, Po Po…
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02/10/2017

KILLJOY

The KillJoy show at this year’s Fringe was gobsmackingly fantastic! It was my first time at any show auspiced by The Women’s Circus and l can honestly say l will be back for more. It was refreshing and exciting to see a new breed of circus performers. The show is a unique blend of contemporary…
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01/10/2017

SMALL ACTS OF LOVE

Fiona Scarlett hates ‘love’. Useless, nasty little emotion. Downright dangerous if you ask Romeo or Juliet. The world is in love with being in love but it’s time for a reckoning and Small Acts of Love is your perfect weapon. Arm yourself with anti-love stories that will toughen your hide and leave you jaded and bitter before…
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01/10/2017

A SEX CLOWN SAVES THE WORLD

Betty Grumble is a thing hard to describe. In the most beautiful sense of the term, this character is an abomination, and an insult to all that is “right” and “proper” with the world. Dirty, sexual and perverse, she grabs you by your respective genitalia and pulls you into the most spectacular car crash of…
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01/10/2017

THE EXOTIC LIVES OF LOLA MONTEZ

The Exotic Lives of Lola Montez  is written by Jackie Smith and directed by Moira Finucane. It is a superbly spirited  show performed with relentless gutso by the exceptionally talented Caroline Lee along with her gorgeous songbird sidekick, Clare St Clare. The show is a stunning portrayal of a fabulous life lead by the one…
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29/09/2017

ENDLESS CRUSH

Introduced by a hypnotic and rhythmic score, each of the three dancers enter the performance with longing gazes into mirrors and into the faces of the audience. It’s a curious and impressive use of device. It is easy to conjure images of Shakespeare’s three witches that meet on heathen ground in Macbeth. Following scenes in…
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