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Photo: Helah Milroy A young woman stares at the camera. She's wearing a bright red wig, that's slightly askew on her head, bright red lipstick and a bright red skirt with a gold crop top and a shrug of pieces of fabric cut in scale like shapes. Choose your aquatic adventure
Reviews

Choose your aquatic adventure

28 January 2022

Helah Milroy’s audience-driven, fish-pun laden, dark comedy wins over Barbara Hostalek, even if it could use a little more rehearsal time.

Reading time • 4 minutesTheatre
Three actors in a scene from the play 'Alex and Evie and the Forever Falling Rain'. Pictured is one young man in yellow rain coat and red hat, a young woman in colourful pattern dress with a aluminium colander for a hat, and a person in a cat costume. Each is looking around with a worried expression on their face Friendship that weathers every storm
Reviews

Friendship that weathers every storm

28 January 2022

An imaginative theatre show about the power of friendship has something for everyone, write Rosalind Appleby and junior reviewer Hannah Peterson.

Reading time • 7 minutesFringe World Festival
Cartoon girl with black hair and a purple dress with a pink flower on a yellow background. A tale of working 9 to 5
The Festival Sessions

A tale of working 9 to 5

27 January 2022

Making its world premiere at Fringe World 2022, The Almost Completely Terrible Tale of Felicity Footin is a didactic fable that makes a mockery of the modern workplace.

Reading time • 6 minutesTheatre
A group of actors in pink or white overalls are on an outdoor stage with a 1960s style caravan parked behind them Dreamland casts a new spell
Reviews

Dreamland casts a new spell

27 January 2022

The return of Shakespeare to Kings Park offers a chance to be swept up in a vortex of comic bliss, writes Jan Hallam

Reading time • 6 minutesTheatre
Two puppeteers from Elliot's Big Nose and the Snot That it Grows, stand against a black backdrop holding large puppet figures of a child and a woman holding a book. Snot saves the day
Kids

Snot saves the day

25 January 2022

A puppet show about a child with a big, snotty nose as ridiculous as it sounds, says Kobi Morrison, and the beautiful madness has kids and adults hooked.

Reading time • 3 minutesTheatre
Three performers are on a stage against a backdrop of a giant green star. Two of the performer stand with their arms and legs spread wide while they hold the legs of the third, who is doing a handstand between them Rising stars have it all
Reviews

Rising stars have it all

25 January 2022

Stardom is an elusive dream, as the cast of ALLSTARS make clear, but David Zampatti sees plenty of evidence to suggest this exciting trio have what it takes.

Reading time • 5 minutesFringe World Festival
Photo: Georgi Ivers A woman stands centre stage, in her underwear, with a cushion strapped to her stomach to mimic pregnancy. She leans back awkwardly from the hips, one arm extended. She is surrounded by elaborately framed photos of herself pulling funny faces. Childbirth stripped bare
Reviews

Childbirth stripped bare

25 January 2022

A visceral and highly physical story of one woman’s experience of childbirth – in all its guts and glory – The Dirty Mother is a performance that demands to be heard says Claire Trolio.

Reading time • 5 minutesFringe World Festival
A man wearing a Bunnings uniform and a Shakespearian ruff stands brooding. Bogan take on Caesar is comedy gold
Reviews

Bogan take on Caesar is comedy gold

22 January 2022

For its seventh Fringe World season, the Bogan Shakespeare gang tackles Shakespeare’s most overrated play and gives it the DIY makeover it so richly deserves, says David Zampatti.

Reading time • 5 minutesComedy
Photo: Anthony Tran Five performers stand on stage of Impro Musical BangTown!. One is centre and has his arms raised like a preacher, the others stand around him in a semi-circle like inspired followers. Will it fizzle or bang?
Reviews

Will it fizzle or bang?

21 January 2022

Despite the talents of a stellar cast of improv vets, Impro Musical BangTown! didn’t blow away David Zampatti on opening night. (But that could all be different tonight.)

Reading time • 4 minutesTheatre
Reading time • 2 minutesFringe World Festival

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