Set in 1990s suburban Australia, The Exact Dimensions of Hell is a theatrical exploration that unflinchingly examines themes of teenage girls, desire and power.
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The Sydney Theatre Company’s captivating revival of the 1975 play, co-produced with Dublin’s Gate Theatre, manages to balance the loathing and humour of Thomas Bernhard’s writing.
Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World at the Sydney Theatre Company is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what it is to be good; what it is to live a good life.
The theatre, dance and music works at this year’s festival have helped fulfil a three-pronged vision from some two decades ago.
Eamon Flack’s production captures well – and with a lovely, light touch – the sense of fleeting memories that are, nevertheless, still available to us.
Playwright Nathan Maynard uses the story of Adam Goodes to explore race in a local footy club.
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