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Angus Cerini/Doubletap
13 June 2014
The Lawler
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| Photo by Sebastian Bourges |
Angus Cerini scares me.
In a good way.
In a way that I know his work is likely to disturb and confront me and make me want a glass of wine and some alone time after a show.
His company, Doubletap, are next in this year's NEON Festival of Independent Theatre with a piece written and performed by Cereni, with dramturgy by Susie Dee, where it's impossible to take you're eyes away from him.
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The King and I
Opera Australia and John Frost
12 June 2014
Princess Theatre
to August 2014
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| Photo by Oliver Toth |
This production of The King and I was first seen in 1991 in Adelaide. It toured Australia and found its way to New York in 1996, where it won some Tonys, and to London in 2000. It was a lavish, extravagant re-working of the Rogers and Hammerstein's 1950s Broadway hit – and still is.
There's not much that hasn't been said about the Brian Thomson's set and Roger Kirk's costumes, which won a couple of those Tonys. The Thai-influenced, outrageously sparklie, elephants-on-the-stage, hoop-skirted, bare-chested, gold, gold and gold stage is magnificent. It's an impression of 1860's Bangkok that could only exist on a music theatre stage.
As this story might only be able to exist on a music theatre stage.
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