Tag: comedy
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Congratulations, Get Rich!
By Merlynn Tong HIGH EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Drama It’s the Opening Night: Seventh Night of Chinese New Year (AKA Human Day) Extravaganza at the Money Money Karaoke Bar. But the mood is sombre. Karaoke bar entrepreneur, Mandy (Merlynn Tong), is curled up on a podium. Her despair is palpable. Her boyfriend, Xavier (Zac…
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe
By Edward Albee HIGH EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Drama George (David Whiteley) and Martha (Kat Stewart) are not a happy couple. They stumble home from a party. Martha literally stumbles in her state of stinking intoxication. George seems more sober but stumbles in face of Martha’s attacks upon him. With her inhibitions even lower…
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Back to the Future
CATERPILLAR EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐⭐⭐ The Drama If, somehow, you do not know the story…take this as your friendly spoiler alert! It’s 1985 and Doc Emmett Brown (Roger Bart) has built a time machine…from a DeLorean. It may have taken 30 years – since he fell from a toilet and hit his head and saw…
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The Divine Miss Bette
CATERPILLAR EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Moment of Comic Genius The Divine Miss Bette has been on stage, at the newly minted Concourse Lounge in Chatswood, for about an hour. She’s strutted, she’s preened, she’s shocked, she’s delighted. She’s made us laugh. And she’s made us happy. Now she leans forward from her waist, with one hand on…
