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January 28, 2024 / Theatre Reviews
January 27, 2024 / Theatre Reviews

Roslyn Packer Theatre, January 16 8/10 Here was something to bend the brain and fire off the synapses like so many New Year’s Eve crackers. This was theatre as spectacle, magic, image, poetry, didacticism and even cinema. To ask what it’s about is both the right and the wrong question.…

January 26, 2024 / Theatre Reviews

  Belvoir St Theatre, January 14 5/10 There was a play to be mined from Anita Heiss’s novel Tiddas, but this is not it. It’s Heiss’s first play, and in turning her 350-page book into a 90-minute play, she makes the novice’s mistake of failing to free herself from the…