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Two women in white Regency-style dresses. A promotional image for the production 'Austen in Therapy'.
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Theatre review: Austen in Therapy, Abbotsford Convent

Jane Austen lovers will find this enjoyable if they can look past the lacklustre production.

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Museums and Collections, University of Melbourne

65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art

This exhibition reveals the importance and brilliance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and knowledge while confronting the brutality…

A photo of a gray-blue night sky with drones forming the outlines of a fox head. Some audiences are taking out their phones to capture a photo in the rows in front.
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Event review: DroneArt Show, Caulfield Racecourse

Over-hyped drone show delivered barely-there spectacle.

A swirly globule-shape painting in shades of pink featuring a turtle. The artwork is part of the joint exhibition Masakatsu Sashie and Creature Creature: Auspicious Delicious, currently showing at Melbourne's Outré Gallery.
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Exhibition review: Masakatsu Sashie and Creature Creature, Outré Gallery

Two highly distinctive artists combine to create an exhibition to savour. 

A rear view of a person wearing a jumpsuit and a yellow beanie; they are looking at bright blue sculptural globules. A camera trained on them.
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Performance review: Night Night, Alexander Theatre, Monash Performing Arts Centres 

A profound tale, told with modern tech whizz-bangery that inspires, makes us think and touches the heart.

An elderly man sitting on a bed. He's wearing a grey robe. The bed too is grey as is the background. The actor is Max Gillies, performing a scene from 'Endgames', a trio of short modernist plays or play extracts at Melbourne venue fortyfivedownstairs.
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Theatre review: Endgames, fortyfivedownstairs

Three short works from modernist playwrights Chekhov, Beckett and Hibberd.

Four women standing with their hands on their hips. A scene from 'FEMME PLAY [ungrateful slut]', now showing at The Butterfly Club.
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Theatre review: FEMME PLAY [ungrateful slut], The Butterfly Club

Judy Doubas’ latest play illuminates women’s roles in contemporary society.

A band on stage with a video screen behind them. There are two men standing on either side of the frame.
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Performance review: Vandemonian Lags, Melbourne Recital Centre

A reprisal of a musical production by Mick Thomas and friends about Tasmanian convicts and their stories.

A dark-skinned woman on all fours, grimacing in the dark.
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Performance review: The Birds, Malthouse Theatre

This adaptation of 'The Birds' sticks far more closely to Du Maurier's tale than the Hitchcock film.

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Theatre review: Shadow Boxing, Explosives Factory

A remount of a production needs more signposting about the era.

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