“Letting Disney loose on a future world is going to dredge up all sorts of chaos.” Oliver Gough on Disney Off Ice
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“Letting Disney loose on a future world is going to dredge up all sorts of chaos.” Oliver Gough on Disney Off Ice

The show is about a world we might live in and what a Disney can represent. It certainly plays with the figure of Walt, and is interested in his personality, history, and legacy… Disney’s a fascinating person; letting him loose on a future world post-cryonic unfreezing is going to dredge up all sorts of chaos from many places.

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Urinetown | Phoenix Ensemble
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Urinetown | Phoenix Ensemble

The cast was accompanied by a live band that really elevated the whole show, and interacted with the characters in ways that fit really well and made the whole audience laugh. The same could be said for the choreography and dance, it was sharp, well placed and well executed. Frantic jazz moves or hip thrusts might have been ill fitted to a story about resource hoarding and capitalism, but it was exactly that contrast that made otherwise funny scenes hilarious.

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The Wharf Revue: Looking for Albanese | Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott
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The Wharf Revue: Looking for Albanese | Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott

The Wharf Revue is an irreverent adventure combining popular culture, cabaret and politics cleverly executed just as much as Scomo ruled the nation singlehandedly and got away with it till he didn’t. This show is just as ambitious as Clive Palmer spending $123 million to win one seat to open another iron ore mine. With such a huge field of contenders to choose from, this show delivers one punch line after the other, meticulously crafted to squeeze out every climate denying, debt defying, corrupted and lying gag possible.

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Breaking | Counterpilot
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Breaking | Counterpilot

A heavy feeling of helplessness and hopelessness overcame me as my anxiety increased with the unsettling news bulletins becoming grimmer and grimmer, sometimes bordering on the absurd, sometimes tinged with the darkest humour. Overall the weight of the well-scripted news bulletins was nothing short of palpable.  

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