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Reviews
Overloaded Ships needs more steering
6 February 2023
Gillian English has plenty to say about beauty standards in her entertaining new show. Like our relationship with our bodies, however, 1000 Ships is a work in progress, writes Claire Trolio.
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Myth magically retold
13 February 2021
There are many ways to retell Homer’s story of the Trojan War, and as David Zampatti discovers, you can make a more than decent fist of it with four comic actors and a bunch of puppets.
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A tsunami of subversion
26 January 2021
You might want to brace yourself for Patrick Marlborough’s radical gloves-off stand-up in On Fringe, but it’s well worth the effort, advises Xan Ashbury.
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Seriously remarkable women
20 January 2020
Ron Banks discovers there is not much to laugh about in the grim stories of how women have overcome patriarchy in Western culture.