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The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race (Queensland Theatre) – theatre review

Vicki Englund1 year ago1 year ago06 mins

This uplifting Queensland Theatre production of Melanie Tait’s successful play-turned film is a very entertaining and fun trip to the theatre. It manages to evoke lots of laughs while also pressing a few salient buttons regarding Australians’ stubbornness about, and suspicion of change. At one point, one of the older women says, ‘We don’t even…

A Broadcast Coup (Ensemble) – theatre review

Paul Kiely2 years ago2 years ago06 mins

A fly-on-the-wall expose of the world of talk-back radio is the basis of Melanie Tait’s outstanding new play A Broadcast Coup. It is set almost entirely in the studios of Australia’s largest public broadcaster (conspicuously nameless). The play provides the impression of a workplace which runs by default and is dominated by individuals whose egos…

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The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race (Queensland Theatre) – theatre review

A Broadcast Coup (Ensemble) – theatre review