Reviews
2008

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AALST

The Barber of Seville

The Female of the Species

Jane Eyre

Keating! The Musical

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Mouthful of Pins

Romeo and Juliet



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2007

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Alice

All Aboard

Amadeus / The Tempest

Back with a Vengeance

Barb Jungr

The Best of Broadway

Beyond Glamour: The Absinthe Tour

Boston Marriage

Broad

Broadway in Concert

By the Light of Stars That Are No Longer

Candi Bentar

Carmen

Cats (Ignatians)

Cats (Harvest Rain)

Children of Eden

The Choir of Westminster Abbey

Closer

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Con's Spire

Creche and Burn

Crossing Roper Bar

Dags and Divas

Don Quixote

The Estimator

The Glass Menagerie

The Government Inspector

Grumpy Old Women Live

Hamlet

Hansel and Gretel

Heard it on the Wireless

Impractical Jokes / Three Colours Hammo

International Gala

John Gabriel Borkman

Keep Everything You Love

The Laramie Project

A Large Attendance in the Antechamber

Little Women

The Last Five Years

Lotte's Gift

Love Child

The Love of the Nightingale

The Mack

Madama Butterfly

Martin Martini

The Messiah

Micro-trip

Miriam Margolyes in Dickens' Women

Miss Saigon

Much Ado About Nothing

A Murder Has Been Arranged

Nabucco

The Narcissist

North of the Border

The Nutcracker

Of Our Own Volition

L'Orfeo

Pig City

Please Like Me

Post Office Rose

Private Fears in Public Places

Red Cap

The Reunion

Sailing South

Scotland the Brave

Sideshow Alley

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

The Space Between

Summer Wonderland

Sweeney Todd

Take Two

Talking Heads

Timon of Athens

True Stories

Walking by Apple Tree Creek

We Don't Dance For No Reason

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

William Barton in Concert

Wil of God / Hellraiser

Women in Voice 16

The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay

Ying Tong - A Walk with the Goons



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2006

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1975: A Love Story

3 X 11

31 Circus Acts in 30 Minutes

Absurd Person Singular

Agnes of God

Allah Made Me Funny

Amadeus

Anne of the Thousand Days

The Annual Report

Anthems from 45 rpm

Away

Beauty and the Beast

Bell, Book & Candle

Big Black Box

The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead

Buffalo

Churchill's Black Dog

Cirque Eloise: Rain

Cloudland

The Comedy of Errors

The Clown from Snowy River

Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset

Corporate

Die Fledermaus

Dirty Dancing

Donna's Party

Dr Ox: The Experiment

Educating Rita

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Flight

Fragments: A Season of Short Plays

Gorilla Theatre

Heavenly Bodies / Beautiful Souls

Hotel Sorrento

Howie the Rookie

I Don't Want to Die in Melbourne

I Failed

I Want To Be In A Jane Austen Novel

An Inspector Calls

It's a Dad Thing

Jesus Christ Superstar

Johnno

Keating

The Knowing of Mary Poppins

Last Drinks

Love Letters

Lucia di Lammermoor

Mabou Mines Dollhouse

Messiah

Metamorphoses

Monkey and his Magic

New Royal

Njunjul, the Sun

Oliver

Omon Ra

Operator

Our Country's Good

Over the Top with Jim

The Pacific Solution

Parade

Peace on Earth

Perfect Skin

The Pirates of Penzance

Porgy and Bess

Private Lives

Puss in Boots

Qwerty

The Randomania Show

The Rehearsal

The Return

Romeo and Juliet (Bell Shakespeare)

Romeo and Juliet (Opera Queensland)

Romeo and Juliet (Queensland Ballet)

Seven Last Words from the Cross

Sex Cubed

Sleeping Beauty

Speaking in Tongues

Spring Awakening

A Streetcar Named Desire

Sub-Con Warrior

Sylvia

Three One-Act Plays

A Touch of Venus

The Tower

Tribes of Avalon

A Tribute to the Blues Mamas

Trivia

Two Weeks with the Queen

Varekai

Virtually Richard 3

West Side Story

Why Kids

The Woman Before

The Woman in Black

Women in Voice 15

The Works by Chicks

Zack Adams



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2005

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Amadeus

Amigos

Assassins

As You Like It

Away

Baal

Baggage — The Kransky Sisters

Barmaids

Biloxi Blues

Bitin' Back

Boomerang

California Suite

A Christmas Carol

Closer to Heaven

The Comedy of Errors

Creche and Burn

The Dance of Jeremiah

The Daylight Atheist

Death of a Salesman

Dimboola

The Dressing Chair

The Drowning Bride

Evocations

The Full Monty

The Gin Game

The Goodies

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

The Great Exception, or, The Knowing of Mary Poppins

Harvey

He Died with a Falafel in his Hand

Hidden Dragons

Hitchcock and Herrmann

Hitchcock Blonde

Holy Lies, Unholy Truth

I Love You You're Perfect Now Change

The Importance of Being Earnest

Into the Woods

La boheme

Les miserables

Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls

Lottie, the Musical

Luggage

Macbeth

Mano Nero

The Marrige of Figaro

Measure for Measure

The Memory of Water

The Merchants of Bollywood

Miss Bosnia

Much Ado About Nothing

Nothing but the Truth

Oedipus the King

Oklahoma

One by One

The People's Messiah

Phobia

The Producers

Rope

Ruby's Story

Saturday Night Fever

The Secret Lives of Henry and Alice

Shakespeare's Villains

Sing-along Sound of Music

The Spook

Stillwater Reflections

The Sweet Road

Tapdogs

The Tempest

This Way Up

The Trial

Tshepang

The Turn of the Screw

Under Milk Wood

Vincent in Brixton

Weary

What the Dickens Down Under

White Men With Weapons

Who's Afraid of the Working Class?

Witness for the Prosecution

Zigzag Street

Dance

A Thousand and One Nights

Circus Oz

International Gala

The Nutcracker

Swan Lake

Tap Dogs

Tibetan Yalong Song and Dance Troupe

The Trocks

With Attitude

Music

Anton Kuerti - Medici Concerts

Canticum - Good Friday Musical Meditation

Kronos Quartet

Macquarie Trio

Piers Lane/Christopher Wrench

Strike Up the Chorus

Tristan und Isolde

Women in Voice



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2004

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A Masked Ball

Arsenic and Old Lace

Baby With The Bathwater

Blurred

Boogie Fever

Bouncers

Carmen

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Chase Me Up Farndale Avenue s'il vous plait

The Cherry Orchard

Come Blow Your Horn

The Comedy of Errors

Company

Copenhagen

The Creation

The Crucible

A Demon in My View

Don Pasquale

Eating Icecream With Your Eyes Closed

Edge of Darkness

Far Away

The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of “Macbeth”

The Fifth Elephant

The First Sunday in December

Footloose

God is a DJ

Grease

Happy Birthday Wanda June

Hello Dolly

The Idiot

I Love You You're Perfect Now Change

In No Particular Order

The Innocents

La fille mal gardee

The Laramie Project

Lend Me A Tenor

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

The Mayne Inheritance

Medea

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mixed Emotions

The Odyssey

One-Act Showcase

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Proof

Provenance

The Real Inspector Hound / Black Comedy

Reservoir Dogs

Ring Round the Moon

Rodgers Hart and Hammerstein

The Taming of the Shrew

The Underpants

The Venetian Twins

West Side Story

The Wiz

Zigzag Street


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2003

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Absurd Person Singular

'Allo 'Allo

Anyone for Breakfast?

Barry Crocker's Banjo

Blithe Spirit

Brave New World Order

Brigadoon

Brilliant Lies

The Busybody

By Burning Iron

Carpe Jugulum

The Children's Hour

The Christian Brothers

A Conversation

Coriolanus

Crazy for You

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Death and the Maiden

Dinkum Assorted

Don Giovanni

An Evening with the Lad Himself

Flight / 365 Ways of Doing and Undoing Orientalism

Frankenstein

Funny Money

The Gondoliers

The Good Doctor

Half & Half

The Herbal Bed

How the Other Half Loves

The Importance of Being Musically Earnest

Into the Woods

Iolanthe

Juice

The Lady's Not For Burning

The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe

The Lonesome West

Look Who's Talking

Lovers at Versailles

The Nightgardener

Outside Edge

Our Town

The Orphanage Project

Phedra

The Road to the She-Devil’s Salon

Romeo & Juliet

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Samuel Beckett's Shorts

Say Cheese

Scapin

The Servant of Two Masters

She's Done It Again

Sleuth

The Solid Gold Cadillac

The Sound of Music

Still Standing

Sweeney Todd

Tartuffe

This is our Youth

Tosca

Twelfth Night (Arts Theatre)

Twelfth Night (Harvest Rain)

Underland

Verdi's Requiem

Wait Until Dark

Waiting for Godot

The Watcher/Pushing Uluru

We Were Dancing

The Woman in Black

X-Stacy


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2002

2005         2004        2003        2002        2001                     

Andrea Chenier

Arsenic and Old Lace

Art

Bag o' Marbles

Beyond 40 / Ballet Blokes

The Big Hit

Bill and Mary

Black Chicks Talking

Blackrock

Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci

The Cemetery Club

Charley's Aunt

Cinderella (La Cenerentola)

Cooking With Elvis

Deathtrap

Double Double

Emma's Nose

Fix / Loose in Flight / Rush

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

Friday Night Drinks

Guys and Dolls

Jake's Women

Jesus Christ Superstar

The Lark

Les Miserables

Macbeth: as told by the Weird Sisters

Masterclass

The Messiah

The Mikado

Milo's Wake

My Three Mothers-in-Law

The Norman Conquests

Play It Again Sam

Psycho Beach Party

Purple Dreams

Richard III

Road to Mecca

Salt

Singin' in the Rain

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty or Coma

Snapshots from Home

Summer of the Aliens

The Talented Mr Ripley

Trachinian Women

Umoja

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom

Yarnin' Up Your Dreaming


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2001

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Aftershocks

Ali Baba

Alive at Williamstown Pier

Annie

Australian Sitcom Festival

Beyond Therapy

Blasted

Boss of the Pool

The Boyfriend

Brilliant Lies

Buddy: The Musical

Buried Child

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Cloudstreet

The Complete Works of William
Shakespeare (Abridged)


Decent Spinster

Dirt

Don Quixote

Double Vision

Falling from Grace

Fiddler on the Roof

The Forest

48 Shades of Brown

Fred

Goin' to the Island

The Heiress

Hotel Paradiso

Humpty Dumpty

In Camera

The Interview

Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat


Kiss Me Kate

Liar, Madman, God?

The Merchant of Venice

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Miraculous

Molly Sweeney

Murder By Misadventure

Murder in Company

My Friend Miss Flint

Oklahoma

Pack of Lies

A Paper House

The Pearl Fishers

The Pirates of Penzance

A Pitchfork Disney

Relatively Speaking

Relentlessly On

Richard II

Rigoletto

Ruthless! The Musical

Safe Sex

The Seagull

Seems Like Yesterday

Shaken Not Stirred

Shout

Sleeping Beauty

Small Mercies

The Small Poppies

The Soldier's Tale

South Pacific

Svetlana in Slingbacks

Talking Heads

Tivoli

Touch and Go

Trainspotting

Travelling North

Twelfth Night

Vinegar Tom

Waiting for Godot

Way Out West

The Women


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