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November 21, 2023 / Theatre Reviews

York Theatre, November 10 7/10 I wonder if pollies are afflicted with deprivation syndrome when they’re ignored by The Wharf Revue. Does Pauline Hanson hear she was surplus to requirements this year, and need a beer, a Bex and a good lie down? Did Tony Burke – again braving the…

November 18, 2023 / Theatre Reviews

OIL

Wharf 1 Theatre, November 9 7/10 We get caught in spirals of desire. It happens with alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, shopping and even fossil fuels. We always want more. Perhaps greed is hardwired into us. Ella Hickson’s gravity-defying 2016 play is partly about how that lust for oil shaped 150…

November 14, 2023 / Theatre Reviews

The Playhouse, October 26 8/10 At the end of Twelfth Night, the “most notoriously abused” Malvolio says to the rest, “I’ll be revenged on the pack of you.” Director Heather Fairbairn’s take on the character is so different to your run-of-the-mill Malvolios that you rather wish Shakespeare had written a…