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- Rebecca Whitton
It takes a lot of stage craft to perform a one person show, but Jacob Rajan’s ebullient charm and skill instantly captures the audience in his highly entertaining one person show, Paradise or The Impermanence of Ice Cream, delivering 80 minutes of sheer theatrical joy.
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- Rebecca Whitton
Manifesto is a powerful and stunning work by one of Australia’s most talented choreographers.
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- Richard Cotter
Chaplinesque and Felliniesque, Room is a surreal realisation of the creative process, the creation of a show from concept to writing to auditioning to staging, a kaleidoscope of tumult, turmoil, bedlam and breakthrough.
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- Richard Cotter
The power of Girls & Boys is in the performance, which is totally compelling. You don’t want a review strewn with spoiler alerts, you just need to know that the journey to the summit is thrilling and devastating, led by a towering talent.
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- Richard Cotter
Sam O’Sullivan may well be David Williamson’s heir apparent at Ensemble, his play festooned with verbal foliage, a topiary pruned by topical shears that never let the branches sag with mere gags, instead shaping the story with sharp observation and an inquisitive wit.
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The Wasp is a dramatic psychological pretzel fabricated with fright, a genuinely arresting hundred minutes of percolating manipulation motivated by slights past and present and an audacious ambition to bring those slights to right.
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- Richard Cotter
A thrilling three hour journey, The Jungle and the Sea delivers exhilarating theatre at cracking pace.
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