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  • A GHOST IN MY SUITCASE
    Stage adaptions have,  by nature, the tendency to go awry, the difficulties of translating characters, place and time from page into something tangible within performance, are all too-well known. However, in this adaption of A Ghost In My Suitcase, originally written  by Gabrielle Wang, here made real by Barking Gecko Theatre, lies an example of…
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  • A QUIET EVENING OF DANCE
    The huge scope of the State Theatre is a curious setting for such an anti-theatrical event as A Quiet Evening Of Dance. Black vinyl floor, white wash lights, dancers in ‘civvies’ and, to begin with, no music at all. The silence is refreshing and reminds one to be less damning of the coughers and rustlers,…
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  • SILKROAD ENSEMBLE
    It’s hard to believe that this is the first time Australian audiences have had the pleasure of hosting The Silk Road Ensemble, a long time coming, that couldn’t have come soon enough. Electric, magnetic, the very height of artistic collaboration, bringing together, in almost perfection, sounds of the West and those of the East. Having…
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  • ONE INFINITY
    A brave, ambitious work that seeks to strip the East and the West of its choreographic ornamentation and, instead, present both side as a united entity, through the similarities of their respective artistic passions. And, though its attempts are noble, it is not so much the height which it misses, as it is the earthiness…
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  • PRIZE FIGHTER
    Prize Fighter introduces us to the world of Congolese refugee, Isa, and the atrocities that lead him to Australia. This powerful theatre uncovers harsh and violent realities of radicalism and war, displacement and loss, interrogating morality, empathy, loyalty & betrayal, manipulation, kindness and forgiveness in the many experiences and relationships we bear witness to, along…
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06/10/2018

WATT

Taking four years to complete the writings which would become Watt,  this adaption of Samuel Beckett’s piece is in stark contrast to such stretching time; it is instead condensed into a single performance of just one hour in length, and it’s solid stuff. It, of course, focuses in on central character, a man of this work’s…
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05/10/2018

LEXICON

Circus began as very specific entertainment. 250 years later, the genre has been taken apart, stripped and stretched to the edge, and will undoubtedly keep moving as society dictates. NoFit State Circus was born of political distress under Thatcher in Wales and has been a leading innovator in today’s contemporary circus since. Contemporary circus is…
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05/10/2018

ASUNA / 100 KEYBOARDS

Since the late 1990s Asuna has created experimental sound works that vault genre divides, crossing from hip-hop to hardcore punk to freak folk noise and low-fi pop. Asuna’s landmark work 100 Keyboards is a site-specific listening experience in which one hundred battery operated keyboards are sensitively brought to life, generating an undulating sonic harmony both mesmerising and mysterious. The crowd…
SOUND
04/10/2018

TRUSTEES

We enter the space, stripped of its usual seating bank; we are instead asked to look inward, at each other, as the space is now set in the round. How this performance begins, is nothing as it ends. The narrative twists and turns between monologue and script, through to all the more personal anecdotes. The…
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03/10/2018

DANIEL JAUREGUI

As the Boite World Music gathers us once again in celebration the world, diversity and the bridging of divide and community through song, this world music open mic session is to be lead by a Latin musician Daniel Jauregui. Through his artistic process, Daniel combines elements of Latin and Fusion music, uniting them through some…
SOUND
02/10/2018

COLOSSUS

The Art Centre has never looked so young, the theatre brimming with fresh faced excitement, on stage are 50 dancers, laid out in a circular formation; this is dance of epic proportion. The maker is, of course, Stephanie Lake, an artist who needs no introduction, an individual that, through their electric, white hot choreography, sets…
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01/10/2018

ELMO

Fringe this year has opted for a rating system describing where each show fits in the “comfort zone.” An interesting concept, though perhaps there is one generic comfort zone, and we all know when we are out of it… Elmo advertises as “Pushing the Comfort Zone”, and it’s not in the way you would expect.…
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01/10/2018

THERE / HERE

Two actors re-performing a show from ten years ago, in the same room, under the same direction, is enough to excite interest. Marcel Dorney, Emily Tomlins and Angus Grant reunite to breathe life into a little show with extreme depth. This is meta theatre: yes, we know. They know that we know, we all know…
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