Alex First
Consent (Bottled Snail Productions), at Chapel Off Chapel - 2 hours 20 minutes, plus interval
What constitutes sexual assault and how difficult is it to prosecute? That is one of the key questions asked in the dramatic, at times...
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Nov 12 min read
Your Name Means Dream (Red Stitch Actors' Theatre) - 100 minutes, plus interval
Just how far can artificial intelligence take us? Can it deliver genuine companionship and more for the lonely, elderly and ailing? ...
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Oct 312 min read
Golden Blood (MTC and Griffin Theatre Company) - 90 minutes, with no interval
A whip smart dramatic and comedic script and a couple of stellar performances characterise a seedy story set in Singapore. Singaporean...
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Oct 312 min read
Cats & Dogs - The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square
This is an exhibition that starts from a place of wholesome and enduring love. After all, who doesn’t have a special place in their heart...
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Oct 252 min read
All The Things We've Done, at Theatre Works - 60 minutes
Fret Jet markets itself as an airline that handles your internal angst, one that can deal with your sharp pangs of guilt. Mind you, as...
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Oct 242 min read
Life in Plastic, at Chapel Off Chapel - 60 minutes
She just may be my favourite entertainer … and with good reason. Time and again, Christie Whelan Browne has shown me that she is,...
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Oct 203 min read
The Passion of Pauline, at The Mission to Seafarers - 60 minutes
Now, here is a decidedly different conceit – take a real-life criminal trial and turn it into a TV gameshow. That is precisely what New...
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Oct 192 min read
Finucane & Smith’s Global Smash Club, at Trades Hall - 75 minutes
From high octane pop and rock to soulful melodies and operatic arias, this is a rampant, raucous, defiant, unabashed and provocative...
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Oct 183 min read
Werewolf, in The Show Room, Arts Centre Melbourne - 1 hour 45 minutes, with no interval
A political firestorm is brewing as the Far Right and the Far Left clash in the incendiary new work from writer Van Badham and director...
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Oct 173 min read
Eucalyptus The Opera (Victorian Opera and Opera Australia), at Palais Theatre - 2 hours 20 minutes
A series of discordant notes marks the opening of a new and enticing Australian operatic production based on Murray Ball’s 1998 novel...
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Oct 142 min read
Bisexual Intellectuals, at Trades Hall - 60 minutes
They swing both ways – that is, they fancy both men and women – and are justifiably proud of that, as they should be. In fact, this...
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Oct 133 min read
Come From Away (CLOC Musical Theatre), at National Theatre - 100 minutes, with no interval
What an outstanding show! CLOC has excelled in staging the superb musical Come From Away. This is the first Victorian...
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Oct 112 min read
GODZ (Head First Acrobats), at Circus Oz Hub - 75 minutes
A gift from the gods? Hardly. Rather, an adults only, camp hoot, involving athleticism, strength and stamina. That is what you get...
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Oct 112 min read
Escalate, at Circus Oz Hub - 60 minutes
Accompanied by live guitar and electronica, which drive the rhythm of their performance, three accomplished Melburnians are pushing the...
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Oct 92 min read
I hope this means something, at Chapel Off Chapel - 70 minutes
To what lengths will one go to address the global climate crisis? That is the question at the heart of a dramatic and compelling story....
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Oct 72 min read
GRRRL Power, at Trades Hall – 60 minutes
Since time immemorial, men have held the power imbalance in the music industry and even though that situation has improved, it remains...
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Oct 62 min read
Etudes/Circle Electric (The Australian Ballet), at Regent Theatre - 2 hours 10 minutes, including interval
The combination of the new and the old is intoxicating in The Australian Ballet’s double bill Etudes/Circle Electric. Up first is...
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Oct 52 min read
Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence (Crash Theatre Company), at Trades Hall - 60 minutes
Ambition at what cost? Just how far is one willing to go to achieve one’s goal? Those are the questions posed in the anarchic reworking...
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Oct 43 min read
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, at Princess Theatre - 2 hours 45 minutes, including a 20-minute interval
Ruva Ngwenya is simply the best in the dynamic musical tribute to the late, great Tina Turner, Tina. What Tina experienced in her...
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Oct 23 min read
Seussical (OCPAC), at Carey Grammar - 110 minutes, plus a 20-minute interval
Based on the whimsical work of Theodor Seuss Geisel (2nd March 1904 – 24th September 1991), known as Dr Seuss, Old Carey Performing Arts...
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