Local Newspapers from Melbourne, Victorisa, Australia
Monday, November 2, 2026
Frederick Knott’s Dial M for Murder is an unusual choice of a play to revive given its 1952 origin as a radio play and subsequent film.Tony Wendice (Tyrie Aspinall) plots to kill his wife, Margot (Bridget Bourke), given her past relationship with the crime writer, Max Halliday (Leon Walshe).Wendice persuades Captain Lesgate (Joshua Bruce) to…
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The production was damn good, but the uninitiated would have trouble identifying names of soloists or duet performers as no cast names were listed against the song titles.Given that it is a nonstop song performance there is no spoken dialogue. In fact at times, visually, dance takes over – so should it not have been…
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As part of its campaign to highlight the poor rundown state of the firefighting truck fleet in Victoria, the United Firefighters Union has commissioned Blue Tree Studios to make a series of short documentary films collectively titled Breaking Point.The films are a powerful indictment of the lack of action in relation to an ageing fleet…
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The undoubted star of the new film Kangaroo Island is the spectacular coastal scenery of the South Australian island itself.It’s a perfect setting for a family drama, which opens in Hollywood where estranged daughter Lou’s (Rebecca Breeds) promising acting career has not achieved the heights predicted for her.She returns to her childhood home on Kangaroo…
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The Pony Cam troupe make no pretence about trying to revive or perform a classic even though The Orchard is based on Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard.Indeed, they endeavour to eschew character, plot and narrative and dive into the themes and tone of Chekov’s original in a form of experimental and improvised theatre that could well…
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In a premiere at TheatreWorks’ Explosives Factory venue, Kathleen Mary Fallon produced Ms Julie Gabler: Trapped.While being an ambitious well-intentioned work seeking to explore jealousy, race, power and gender the play, unfortunately, failed to deliver and thus disappointed.The play revolved around three actors who were vying for parts in a production of Shakespeare’s Othello.Robert was…
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In a wonderful piece of youth theatre written for ages 10 to 13, Monkey Baa Theatre Company put on a moving production of Yong at the The Show Room, Melbourne Arts Centre.The play was a depiction of the mostly untold story of Chinese immigration to Australia and their role in the Victorian gold rush of…
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Bloomsday in Melbourne’s Dr Steve Carey and Associate Professor Frances Devlin-Glass present A Day With James Joyce’s Ulysses on Sunday, August 24 from 10am – 4.30pm at 3ZZZ, 309 Albert St, Brunswick.Ulysses was published in Paris on James Joyce’s 40th birthday, February 2, 1922.This interactive course, a mix of presentation and discussion of text, assumes…
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The opening announcement boomed: “The time has come to rock!” And PLOS Musical Productions sure did rock Frankston with their splendid show We Will Rock You at the Frankston Arts Centre.We Will Rock You is set 300 years in the dystopian future when Planet Earth has been renamed the iPlanet, controlled by the Globalsoft Corporation…
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The Dunolly Gilbert and Sullivan Society presents Florrie from Fitzroy on Saturday, August 16 at 2.00pm in the Fitzroy Town Hall Reading Room.The show celebrates the 150th birthday of Florrie Forde, said to be one of the most famous musical hall stars of the early Edwardian era. Florrie was born in Gertrude St, Fitzroy, on…
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