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Singularity | Chunky Move
Review for Singularity
Reviewed by Jan Chandler, Melbourne Stage Online

Singularity creates an emotional roller coaster ride, for performers and audience, which explores connection and inclusion, sometimes uncomfortable sometimes welcome.
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Review for Mrs Petrov's Shoe by Noëlle Janaczewska

Theatre @ Risk’s latest production, Mrs Petrov’s Shoe by Noella Janaczewska, is a comedy that explores issues surrounding cultural identity; fantasy and reality; fact and fiction; truth an
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Hot-pink and furry desires of a monogamous woman
Reviewed by Robin Usher, Age Online

Michelle Heaven has worked with many of Australia's leading contemporary companies and won a Green Room award as a performer, but she has never undertaken anything as complex as the latest ChamberMade
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A thought-provoking micro-performance on the complexities of intimacy.
Review for Inert
Reviewed by Hilary Crampton, The Age Online

If you are feeling as though you have lost touch with your inner self, that the pace of life only allows you to skim the surface, then find 20 minutes to drop in to Inert.
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Ambitious tale of one woman\'s sensual exploration lacks focus.
Review for CØRRUPTION
Reviewed by John Slavin, The Age Online

 Freud once wrote that in any love relationship, four characters are always involved.ChamberMade's new performance piece directed by Douglas Horton and choreographer Michelle Heaven takes this di
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A view of ourselves in a pop-up panorama of technicoloured paranoia.
Review for
Reviewed by Helen Thomson, Age Online

 This description from the press release for A View of Concrete is a fairly accurate summary of Gareth Ellis' play about Generation Next. It encapsulates the play's inward-looking "alternati
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Driven by a hunger for facts, not fiction
Review for Mrs Petrov's Shoe by Noëlle Janaczewska
Reviewed by Robin Usher, Age Online

Norma Khouri achieved fame and fortune with Forbidden Love, which she claimed was a memoir about growing up in Jordan - until it was revealed in 2004 that she was a hoax author under investigation for
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Mrs Petrov’s Shoe | Theatre@Risk
Review for Mrs Petrov's Shoe by Noëlle Janaczewska
Reviewed by Jan Chandler, Melbourne Stage Online

Theatre @ Risk’s latest production, Mrs Petrov’s Shoe by Noella Janaczewska, is a comedy that explores issues surrounding cultural identity; fantasy and reality; fact and fiction; truth an
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Carrying shoes
Review for Carrying Shoes - into the unknown
Reviewed by Bill Perrett, Age Online

Set in the days around the fall of the Shah and the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, Carrying Shoes sees these turbulent events through the experiences of an expatriate family, the Matthews.
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Don Pasquale
Review for Don Pasquale
Reviewed by John Slavin - The Age Online

Not for prudes, opera queens or purists, but delightful entertainment nevertheless.
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At the wrecking ball
Review for We Built This City
Reviewed by Greg Burchall - The Age Online

Melbourne's construction workers celebrate the 150th anniversary of the eight-hour day with stories from building sites, a rock'n'roll choir and a ballet for heavy machinery.
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Find Me, Call Me, Meet Me | Blue Chair Theatre
Review for Find Me, Call Me, Meet Me
Reviewed by Darryl Emmerson

Staged by Blue Chair Theatre, a company of young, energetic actors, this play is an engaging look at relationships, dating, sex, desire, love and the whole damn thing.
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CheckOut!
Polyglot Theatre’s Check Out! is a wickedly funny work of theatre about the consumer culture bonanza. Set in a supermarket, Check Out! follows the remarkable adventures of tantrum-throwing Baby who is determined to get what she wants.

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The Impro Cave 2010
Impro Melbourne’s hot fan favourite, the Impro Cave, is back to ward off the winter chill. And to help we are bringing back our favourite shows – Bingo Board of Doom, Smells Like a Song, Gypsyprov and How ‘Bout This just to name a few.

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Manbeth
Manbeth is an explosive Shakespearian performance collaboration between Band of Creatures and Tanya Gerstle’s Optic Nerve Theatre ('YES', 'Five Kinds of Silence').

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