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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Midsumma: Rhonda’s fabulous Guided CouTours by Joanna Bowen

This Midsumma festival offers you the chance to go behind the scenes at Melbourne Arts Centre, guided by an Australian entertainment icon: Rhonda! Rhonda Butchmore, that is. If you show up e…

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Hit Productions: Bombshells by Joanna Bowen

It’s hard to think of Bombshells and not think of Caroline O’Connor, the diva who inspired playwright Joanna Murray Smith to write this solo show, with six female characters including …

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Friday, June 6, 2014

The Rap Guide to Evolution by Joanna Bowen

The Rap Guide to Evolution seeks to educate and entertain by making evolutionary theory relevant and engaging to a wide audience. This might sound like rapper Baba Brinkman has bitten off mo…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:30AM
Saturday, November 2, 2013

A Murder is Announced by Joanna Bowen

Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced was always going to draw fans to see it on stage. I took my mother, a keen fan of Christie, hopeful that even if I didn’t enjoy it, at least she w…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:03AM
Thursday, June 27, 2013

La Mama: The Penelopaid by Joanna Bowen

Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad is a confronting and humorous account of Penelope, a bit player in the epic Odyssey. Famous for her patience and faithfulness, Penelope waits 20 years for …

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:02PM
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Legally Blonde, the Musical: a look at it mid-season by Joanna Bowen

Legally Blonde, The Musical is the epitome of the feel-good stage spectacular. This gem of a production has everything – a fantastic script, excellent cast, great music and seamless techni…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PM
Friday, June 21, 2013

Circus Oz 2013 by Joanna Bowen

On the outside a Circus Oz show is a delightful, clever, cheeky romp. On the inside it breathes a furnace-like soul, pumping warmth all through the Big Top and its full audience. With so muc…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PM
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

MIJF: 774’s Roaring Swing by Joanna Bowen

774’s Roaring Swing had all the potential for a glamorous night: amazing outfits, live bands and some thousand and a half eager attendees, determined to dance the night away. Swing Patrol …

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:55PM
Friday, May 24, 2013

Bell Shakespeare: Phèdre by Joanna Bowen

When Bell Shakespeare deviates from the master, you know there’s a good reason. From Ancient Greek myth via Euripides, through Seneca’s Rome, past Racine in France and finally to Ted Hug…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:44AM
Monday, May 13, 2013

Scared of clowns? by Joanna Bowen

There are so many things to love about the Fear&Love troupe: their awesome energy, great ensemble connection, an extensive (read: revolting) array of talents and an infectious delight in…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:02PM
Sunday, May 12, 2013

La Mama: Love Is My Sin by Joanna Bowen

Love Is My Sin is a beautiful and complex layering of Shakespeare’s sonnets with a woman’s voice, a man’s voice and a cello’s voice. It explores the language of the master’s sonnet…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:16AM
Thursday, May 9, 2013

La Mama: The Good Person of Szechuan by Joanna Bowen

Any honest Brecht performance means a serious workout of mental and physical focus, and this latest production of The Good Person of Szechuan by La Mama does full justice to Brecht’s daunt…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:30PM
Monday, April 15, 2013

MICF: This is SIberian Husky by Joanna Bowen

The boys of This Is Siberian Husky have wrestled sketch comedy into an electric chair and catapulted it into The Tuxedo Cat. Their horribly amusing, brilliantly wrong humour is founded on th…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:05AM
Friday, February 1, 2013

Yana Alana, where have you been all my life? by Joanna Bowen

Yana Alana, where have you been all my life? From the first, stunning moment of Between the Cracks, Yana Alana is a delight – a stark naked (except for some sparkles), gloriously blue and …

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:40PM

RSC: The Rape of Lucrece by Joanna Bowen

A show based on Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece was never going to have feel good or light-hearted chick flick love. So while I wasn’t surprised to come out feeling furious, I wasn’t…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:29PM
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Leo brings circus to a new space by Joanna Bowen

Leo is a mind-bending creation from Berlin company Circle of Eleven that merges circus, dance, digital projections and comedy into a wonderfully physical experience and brings circus into an…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:08AM

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