The success of the Melbourne Festival
It’s been 48 hours since my last Melbourne Festival show… Although Melbourne’s festival lovers are looking forward to being in
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Author: Anne-Marie Peard
Melbourne Festival: Masquerade
Kate Mulvany’s gorgeous adaption of Kit Williams’s picture book Masquerade celebrates why picture books and stories are so important to
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Melbourne Festival: Desdemona
The Melbourne Festival production of Peter Sellars Desdemona sold out. With reactions ranging from “tedious” – there were walk outs and some
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Melbourne Festival: The Bacchae
I didn’t take my eyes off the stage and am still trying to fully understand the astonishingly beautiful, often disturbing
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Melbourne Festival: The Rabbits
The Rabbits is an hour-long opera based on a 1998 children’s picture book. Its Melbourne Festival season is sold out and
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Melbourne Fringe Awards
The winners of the 2015 Melbourne Fringe festival awards were announced on Saturday 3 October at the Fringe Club at the
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Melbourne Fringe: 6 Degrees of Ned Kelly
Melita Rowston’s paternal grandfather told the story of how he nicked Ned Kelly’s bones from the Old Melbourne Gaol in
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Melbourne Fringe: That’s Showbiz
The Lowdown Hokum Orchestra have been around long enough to know exactly what they’re doing. If only they’d have the
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Melbourne Fringe: Little V’s Terrible Tea Party
Welcome to Little V’s nightmare: a place where time is irrelevant and nobody is safe. Virginia, the eponymous Little V,
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Melbourne Fringe: Church of Wonders
It’s not for nothing that Church of Wonders is on at 10:15 at night. It’s the sort of filthy pleasure
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