Tag: Supreme Arch
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Prima Facie
By Suzy Miller SUPREME EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Drama Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young barrister at the height of her considerable powers. During cross-examination, she plays the witness like a master-conjurer. Feigning ignorance, projecting incompetence whilst slowly tightening the noose around the witness’ neck. By the time the witness knows they’ve been duped,…
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Just For One Day
SUPREME EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Drama It’s 2025 – a mere 40 years since Live Aid – and Jemma is leaving home to attend university. Her mother, Suzanne, has slipped the Live Aid picture book into her backpack. Just as something to help Jemma remember her mum. But Jemma knows nothing about Live Aid. The event may live within…
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Bloom
Book & Lyrics by Tom Gleisner SUPREME EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Drama The Pine Grove Aged Care Centre is in crisis. The inmates residents are unhappy. They are restricted to the centre, where activities are frequently cancelled and the food is barely worth living for. They have nothing to do except wait to die.…
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Hamilton
SUPREME EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Dramatic Premise Alexander Hamilton, future founding father and United States Treasury Secretary, grew up impoverished, and in squalor, on the Caribbean island of Nevis. But after penning a stirring account of a hurricane which destroyed his home, the townsfolk raise sufficient money to send the young Hamilton to New…
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Dracula
HIGH EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ By Bram Stoker Adapted and Directed by Kip Williams The Dramatic Premise Jonathan Harker is a newly minted English solicitor. His law firm has sent him to visit a client at his castle in the Carpathian Mountains in Eastern Europe. The legal task at hand could not be more mundane;…
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RETRO REVIEW | The Lifespan of a Fact
THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT caused PETE’S EYEBROWS to form a SUPREME ARCH…THRICE! The Dramatic Premise John D’Agata has written a brilliant essay about the death of a Las Vegas teenager, Levi Presley, who threw himself from the top of the Stratosphere Hotel. The essay explores the vapidness of Vegas and contemplates what might motivate…
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The Importance of Being Earnest
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST caused PETE’S EYEBROWS to form a SUPREME ARCH The Dramatic Premise Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing are friends leading a double life. Whilst visiting the country, they live up to all the core values of the Victorian times in which they live. They understand class structure. They adhere to all…
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SIX: The Musical
SIX caused PETE’S EYEBROWS to form a SUPREME ARCH. The Dramatic Premise We all know about the six wives of Henry VIII… Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. Now Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr are on stage, making their case, via song and dance, for which one of them…
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Come From Away
COME FROM AWAY caused PETE’S EYEBROWS to form a SUPREME ARCH! The Dramatic Premise It’s another sleepy day in Gander, Newfoundland. The mayor is collecting the local gossip at Tim Hortons, even though he doesn’t drink coffee. The local cop is running his radar. Parents are taking their children to school. And then they learn,…
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RBG: Of Many, One
RBG caused PETE’S EYEBROWS to form a SUPREME ARCH RBG is a triumph. Few things on a stage impress me more than an actor standing all alone, for ninety minutes to two hours, telling a story. In RBG, the audience is treated to one actress – the wonderful Heather Mitchell – embodying not only the…
