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Review: Speed is Emotional

Speed is Emo­tion­al Writ­ten and per­formed by Jo Rander­son Speed is Emo­tion­al is exactly what it sounds like: fast, funny, a little chaot­ic, and com­pletely its own thing. Writ­ten and per­formed by Jo Rander­son, the show dives head­first into what it feels like to live with ADHD. Rander­son invites any­one with a neurodi­ver­gent brain, and […]

Review: Ghost Bros

By Talia Carl­isle Creak­ing floor­boards, howls in the night… just anoth­er Wel­ling­ton storm or is there some­thing spooky hid­ing in Paramount’s new ven­ue, The Gods? I’m not entirely sure since I can’t find the place… But a ghostly maze of paths and Fringe staff lead me to the aud­it­or­i­um even­tu­ally, where I man­age my less […]

Review: Amélie

By Talia Carl­isle The wait is over. WITCH Music Theatre is back in town, bring­ing the candy­­floss-sweet hearted magic of Amélie, our new friend at The Han­nah (Han­nah Play­house) till Nov 29. Have you ever opened your favour­ite child­hood story book or movie and wanted to dive right in? Now is your chance to dive […]

Review: Messy

Reviewed by George Niven Step­ping into the Dome stage at Bats on Tues­day night felt almost like intrud­ing. Tak­ing my seat I felt I was brush­ing past Freya, the char­ac­ter played by writer Tara West­­on-Webb, as she sat cross-legged on the floor of her room fas­ti­di­ously paint­ing brightly col­oured icons in a small grid. The […]

Review: Mr Halloween Bachelor

I’ve not seen so much body paint in a room in a while, and this time, I’m con­trib­ut­ing to it. It’s PopRox’s Mr Hal­loween Bach­el­or at the Han­nah Play­house, a tri­umphant sequel to last year’s Ms Christ­mas Bach­el­or­ette, and the cast (and some of the audi­ence) are fully cos­tumed for a night of flirty frivolity […]

Review: Grifted & Talented

Reviewed by Beth­any Miller Firstly, what a bril­liant premise for a com­edy game show. Being one of those “gif­ted” kids, I was taken by the name from the start – the nos­tal­gia of a school pro­gramme for uncon­ven­tion­al thinkers that I real­ise now were prob­ably all the oddballs and undia­gnosed neuros­picy types. Hon­estly, a lot […]

Review: Everything That Happened at Number 68

Have you ever con­sidered flat­ting in Mel­bourne? Wondered what to look for in a flat­mate? What are the red flags, green flags, rain­bow flags to look for? Grab a tea and a blanket and cosy up for Nick Robertson’s Fringe Fest­iv­al adven­ture, Everything That Happened at Num­ber 68. As Nick shares with us, “Share­houses come […]

Review: Triple Double Trouble

Review by Nicole Win­ters Triple Double Trouble is a hil­ari­ous and enga­ging show,  and truly made us care about the char­ac­ters. With a rotat­ing cast of doubles – today’s show is made up of Jonath­an Mandeno & Thomas Bauer, Sarah Ash­ill & Tony Yuile – each night gives you some­thing dif­fer­ent. Dur­ing our show, each […]

Review: Thank You Ten

Review by Feli­city Cozens Love music­als?  Love Foot­lights?  Want a jour­ney through every show they’ve done since 2014? Book through Tick­et­booth and get down to Te Aua­ha on Dix­on for a typ­ic­ally fab­ulous Foot­lights show!  Laura Gardner’s set is decept­ively simple – a raised dais and a set of stairs topped by a plat­form – […]

Review: Lizzie

By Talia Carl­isle Have you ever heard someone scream bloody murder? It’s worth cut­ting down the door to watch LIZZIE, the rock­ing hit music­al by WITCH Music Theatre, where murder sounds hellishly good…. This punk rock’n’rollercoaster will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to fin­ish. So tight­en your cor­set and quieten […]