Michael Balfour
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![Sydney Theatre Company. Into the Shimmering World. Image is a stage set of a farmhouse kitchen, set upon a platform with stairs up to it. Three of the four walls are missing and a man in farmer's clothes stands on the left of the platform with arms outstretched.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Into-The-Shimmering-World_Sydney-Theatre-Company_credit_Daniel-Boud_105.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Into the Shimmering World, Sydney Theatre Company Wharf Theatres
The brutality of the Australian landscape is evoked to tell a story of love, loss and renewal.Â
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Theatre review: One Hour No Oil
A powerful exploration of intimacy, masculinity and economic disenfranchisement in modern day Australia.
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Theatre review: End of
A funny-sad monologue about jobs and family, ageing and mortality.
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Theatre review: Razor Gang Wars
An immersive historical drama in the 20s set in Sydney's underworld.