Ash Flanders is an award-winning theatre writer and performer, a cabaret artiste and a thoroughly entertaining human. He is also one half of dream team Sisters Grimm (along with Declan Greene), who are responsible for the theatre productions Calpurnia Descending (Sydney Theatre Company, Malthouse), The Sovereign Wife (Melbourne Theatre Company) and Summertime in the Garden of Eden (Theatre Works and Sydney’s Griffin
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Writer: Laura Imbruglia Hear ye, Hear ye! Fantastically wonderful Melbourne-based queer DIY theatre group Sisters Grimm are back with a new show - the world premiere of "Lilith: The Jungle Girl" at MTC, and tickets have just gone on sale. (Side note...their website, which I just hyperlinked, is the shittiest/best thing ever). I've been obsessively following these guys and their work since I saw their sell-out award-winning production "The Sovereign Wife" a few years back
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Claire van der Boom, Richard Piper, Leon Ford.Photo by Jeff Busby MTC presents Double Indemnity by Tom Holloway adapted from the book by James M Cain 30 May-2 July 2016 Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse Two hours and 30 minutes including a 20-minute interval Theatre review by Reuben Acciano Without going full Cultural Studies Bastard™, one tip for enjoying a noir genre piece is suspending the application of contemporary gender politics and diving headlong, credulous, into
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Colin Friels. Photo by Jeff Busby MTC presents Skylight by David Hare 18 June – 23 July Southbank Theatre,The Sumner Two hours and 20 minutes including a 20-minute interval Theatre review by Brett Champion When David Hare burst onto the British theatre scene with the infamous Slag! in 1970, he rocketed almost overnight into the ranks of anarcho-political playwrights and authors such as Dario Fo and Harold Pinter, using contemporary theatre to challenge the social
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