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Actor Temi Wilkey: ‘No one saw me as a Blanche DuBois or a Juliet’

www.wakaticket.com – Her one-woman show Main Character Energy has been a long time coming, with the writer-performer trying drag, standup and clowning to find her funny voice. ‘You have to put yourself in the limelight,’ she says…
Actor Temi Wilkey: ‘No one saw me as a Blanche DuBois or a Juliet’
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Birdboy review – moments of spark in dark, chilly redemption story

www.wakaticket.com – There is a cartoonishness at play, but a coldness too, in this shadowy tribute to the ‘weirdo’ outsider…
Birdboy review – moments of spark in dark, chilly redemption story
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Candide review – a joyous, dazzling, bonkers satire

www.wakaticket.com – Sydney Opera House, Joan Sutherland TheatreDean Bryant, one of Australia’s greatest directors, coaxes magic out of Voltaire’s novella in an operetta that is both funny and meaningful…
Candide review – a joyous, dazzling, bonkers satire
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Never Have I Ever review – Deborah Frances-White comedy has its funny moments

www.wakaticket.com – Melbourne Theatre Company, Arts Centre MelbourneDinner party discussions of sex, money, power and race make for a heady, if contrived, mix in the Guilty Feminist podcaster’s debut…
Never Have I Ever review – Deborah Frances-White comedy has its funny moments
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Figures in Extinction review – life, death and a heartfelt plea for Earth’s creatures, humans included

www.wakaticket.com – Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s three-act dance work on the state of the world turns the stage itself into a living thing, morphing between shades of sorrow, humour, fear and relief…
Figures in Extinction review – life, death and a heartfelt plea for Earth’s creatures, humans included
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The Parent Agency review – David Baddiel’s derivative musical goes for the obvious jokes

www.wakaticket.com – A disgruntled child enters a parallel universe where he can select new parents. It has a spirited cast, but the songs are simplistic, stompy and uninspired…
The Parent Agency review – David Baddiel’s derivative musical goes for the obvious jokes
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The Pirates of Penzance review – a modern, majorly fun staging that runs out of steam

www.wakaticket.com – Hayes Theatre, Sydney, then touringWith just a cast of five, this production of the beloved Gilbert and Sullivan musical starts off well but struggles to stick the landing…
The Pirates of Penzance review – a modern, majorly fun staging that runs out of steam
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Much Ado About Nothing review – Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell crackle in a party of pink

www.wakaticket.com – With a chemistry that is as bright as the modern-day costumes in this weird and wonderful show, the actors turn Shakespeare into a giddy house party cum modern romcom…
Much Ado About Nothing review – Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell crackle in a party of pink
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Hamlet review – RSC’s bold seaborne concept really pushes the boat out

www.wakaticket.com – The court of Elsinore becomes a ship of state – or a ship of fools – in Rupert Goold’s production…
Hamlet review – RSC’s bold seaborne concept really pushes the boat out
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Champion review – Muhammad Ali, the Queen, punk and the National Front make an incendiary mix

www.wakaticket.com – A South Shields family are torn by opposing forces as Ishy Din cleverly taps into the emotive memories of a weekend in the summer of 1977…
Champion review – Muhammad Ali, the Queen, punk and the National Front make an incendiary mix
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Truth review – Julian Assange play is hard going, with flashes of brilliance

www.wakaticket.com – Five actors play the WikiLeaks founder – but instead of exploring different, contradictory parts of his character, they form a united chorus of complaint…
Truth review – Julian Assange play is hard going, with flashes of brilliance
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Richard II review – Jonathan Bailey exudes charisma as a cocaine-snorting king of misrule

www.wakaticket.com – Nicholas Hytner’s production plays like a thriller, while Brigerton star Bailey glitters with feeling in a potently physical modern-dress production…
Richard II review – Jonathan Bailey exudes charisma as a cocaine-snorting king of misrule
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‘Why aren’t there Oscars for what we do?’ Choreographer Ellen Kane lets rip

www.wakaticket.com – From Matilda to Dear England, she is the movement director everyone wants to work with – and her work has lit up hit after smash hit. But, she says, it’s time this under-appreciated art received proper recognition…
‘Why aren’t there Oscars for what we do?’ Choreographer Ellen Kane lets rip
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East Is South review – weighty AI drama takes aim at humanity’s biggest questions

www.wakaticket.com – The actors, especially Kaya Scodelario, work hard with Beau Willimon’s plot, but are hampered by a leaden, tension-light production…
East Is South review – weighty AI drama takes aim at humanity’s biggest questions
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Men’s Business review – a night of extreme nihilism, offal and frequent awkward sex

www.wakaticket.com – Simon Stephens’s update of Franz Kroetz’s stark 1972 play sees butcher Charlie and welder Victor amid knives and flanks of meat, the threat of violence palpable…
Men’s Business review – a night of extreme nihilism, offal and frequent awkward sex
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All Blood Runs Red review – scattershot biopic of America’s first black pilot

www.wakaticket.com – Morgan Bailey’s one-man show explores the many lives of Eugene Bullard, but for all its cinematic flourishes, emerges as a frustratingly shadowy character study…
All Blood Runs Red review – scattershot biopic of America’s first black pilot
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Animal Farm review – muddy, sweaty production updates Orwell’s classic with astounding results

www.wakaticket.com – You believe in the animals completely in this bold adaptation, which, with its seemingly guileless Napoleon, resonates darkly in the here and now…
Animal Farm review – muddy, sweaty production updates Orwell’s classic with astounding results
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The Passenger review – wartime drama has a noirish haze but no real darkness

www.wakaticket.com – A symbolic, stripped-down staging fails to plumb the chilling emotional depths of this story about a Jewish man trying to flee Germany in the 1930s…
The Passenger review – wartime drama has a noirish haze but no real darkness
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Three Sisters review – candlelit stage throws flickering light on a fiery family

www.wakaticket.com – Chekhov’s claustrophobic drama is perfectly suited to this intimate venue, with moments of humour leavening the heartbreak…
Three Sisters review – candlelit stage throws flickering light on a fiery family
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Escaped Alone and What If If Only review – a dislocating Caryl Churchill evening of two halves

www.wakaticket.com – These two short plays offer differing pleasures, one in the acting, the other in its subtle meditation on mourning…
Escaped Alone and What If If Only review – a dislocating Caryl Churchill evening of two halves
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