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FRINGE – Pat Burtscher’s Overwhelmed – Tuxedo Cat – 3.5K

Sitting through Pat Burtscher’s Overwhelmed, is like hanging out with a good mate who is adept at talking intelligent and amusing crap for an hour.  His demeanor is friendly, if somewhat self-conscious and fidgety, and he engages his audience with what appears to be a stream of consciousness performance that alters each night and continues …

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FESTIVAL – Girl Asleep – The Space, AFC

In Windmill Theatre’s Girl Asleep, we meet Greta (Ellen Steele), a teenage girl who has just moved house for the umpteenth time because of her Dad’s (Matthew Whittet) job and is struggling to work out where she fits in: in her family, in her new school, in the world in general. Greta’s a fairly quiet …

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FRINGE – Wendy House – Salad Days – 2.5K

In the disused upper room of a city building, a Wendy House has been created by Pixel Theatre. It is a dystopian future where individual rights have been whittled away by the Government in the name of terrorist prevention, and those found breaking curfew face a future of imprisonment or worse. Individuals who have chosen …

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FRINGE – They Saw a Thylacine – Tuxedo Cat @ Raj House – 4.5K

Two women, two powerful stories set in 1930s Australia. We witness their passions, the battles they faced, the adventures they had and their personal experiences with the last remaining Tasmanian tigers. The thylacine holds a special place in the communal Australian psyche. To most of us, it’s a mystical creature, already long gone by the …

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FRINGE – Kraken – Tuxedo Cat @ Raj House – 4K

To the beautiful sounds of Regina Spektor, Trygve Wakenshaw takes to the stage to show off his impressive physicality and delightful humour. He is not afraid to bare all to do this. This short show is apparently a work in progress as Wakenshaw experiments with different characters and audience reactions. It is roughly structured around …

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FRINGE – The Situation – Ayres House – 3.5K

Sophie’s not dealing well with her break-up from Jase, even after a considerable period of time. Her friends decide that the way for her to move on from her obsessional Facebook stalking and drunken text rants is to get back in the dating game. Given how interested (read obsessed) with the online world she is, …

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FESTIVAL – Roman Tragedies – Festival Theatre

Roman Tragedies isn’t just a play, or even three plays, it’s a complete theatrical experience, crafted by Toneelgroep Amsterdam, under the direction of Ivo van Hove. It’s up to you to decide what you want to make out of it, as after the opening sequence, pretty much anything goes. The entire stage space, including the …

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FRINGE – DNA – Channel 9 Kevin Crease Studios – 2.5K

Under the direction of Charlaina Thompson, a young group of girls come together to present a play focusing on several topics pertinent to today’s youth: friendship, love, bullying, guilt, peer pressure, responsibility, fear, etc. DNA will be of interest to school groups as an exploration of these issues and how they are presented in theatre. …

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FRINGE – Happy Gas – Channel 9 Kevin Crease Studios – 3K

  Two people, an old Ford Laser, and the expansive area of a sound stage at the Chanel 9 Studios combine to provide what is really a staple of any Fringe Festival – some abstract theatre. The blurb for the show describes the characters as clowns and, while they are certainly very funny at times, …

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FRINGE – Wake – Arcade Lane – 3.5K

Wake is a re-staging of an original one act musical (formally called Problems of Definition – the reason for the title change is unclear) from new Melbourne company, Cryptophasia. The creation of sisters Felicia and Natasha King, it is set in the waiting room of a hospital where Laura (Brittany Lewis) has been waiting for …

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