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This is not a review...THIS IS A "CRISIS" IN THEATRE CRITICISM IN 2025, PROMISE!!!!! HONESTLY!!!
Best of 2025:Meanjin closes after 85 years, Time Out wants more user-friendly reviews, our stages shed social realism for whimsy, our literary journals…
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This is not a review...this is The Talented Mr. Ripley vs. Rebecca
Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company are caught in a vampiric game of cat and mouse to match the two protagonists of these recent…
Nov 14, 2025
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This is not a review...it's losing friends part 2: Mel & Sam’s No Hat, No Play! in a Post-Post-Nanette World
A time capsule into a 2020 comedy scene reveals how we’ve gone from post-Nanette to post-post-Nanette, from self-serious confessional to a new age of…
Jul 13, 2025
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this is not a review...this is my bias, part 1: losing friends
In three reviews from 2025's Melbourne International Comedy Festival I want to see where my bias might lead me as a critic, and think about where it has…
Jun 8, 2025
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This is not a review...it's 2024 in Three Acts
A Theory of the Gen Z Musical, listicles, reductive statements and a question about the politics on our stages. Here's three acts to summarise 2024 in…
Jan 12, 2025
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This is not a review...it's the critic, embedded
For two months I've been attending rehearsals of 'Peacemongers' by The People. How should the rehearsal process contribute to theatre criticism? Will…
May 26, 2024
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This is not a review...it's the best show in 2023
What does it mean to be the best show for this year? What does our best show look like in 2023? What does it aim to say or do? What has it said and what…
Jan 5, 2024
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This is not a review...because Guy Webster isn't objective
Last month, I was told that the team behind a production of Songs for A New World in Melbourne did not want me to review them. I sit down with their…
Dec 3, 2023
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