Tag: fortyfivedownstairs

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Lucky: Songs By Kylie’s Midsumma launch

If I had to do it all again…I wouldn’t change a single thing.. so go the lyrics from one of Melbourne girl Minogue’s early career pop anthems. With this show, commissioned by the 2017 Adelaide Cabaret Festival, co-written with Dean…

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‘The Book Of Revelations’ theatre performance explores dementia

The Book Of Revelations is an exciting new contemporary performance theatre production. Alison Richards is the writer and solo performer and teamed up with Nancy Black from Black Hole theatre along with puppeteers, sound and visual designers to develop a…

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Moira Finucane’s ‘The Rapture’: Party at the Edge of the Abyss

The atmosphere was positively electric for Moira Finucane’s opening of her new performance, The Rapture. There was frenetic buzzing energy from the audience as we shuffled to our seats at the cabaret-style tables at fortyfivedownstairs. A cross-shaped catwalk dominates the…

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‘Trainspotting Live’ at fortyfive downstairs

I was so excited to hear about Trainspotting Live.  Especially since it is being performed at fortyfive downstairs: the perfect venue for such an immersive experience such as this. Trainspotting has deservedly gained cult status as it exploded from Irvine Welsh’s…

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‘L’Amante Anglais – The English Lover’ at fortyfivedownstairs

Did you ever think you’d sympathise with a murderess? A breathtaking 100 minutes of tragic human drama is laid bare in Laurence Strangio’s reprisal of his popular adaptation of romantic French novelist Marguerite Duras’ 1967 novella, L’Amante Anglais. This lauded…

‘Wit’: Pulizer Prize-winning theatre at 45 downstairs

Pulitzer Prize-winning theatre, I don’t get many invitations to see them. ‘Wit’ is the only play written by Margaret Etson, and she made it count – it won the Pulitzer, was performed hundreds of times all over the world, and…

Triumph at fortyfivedownstairs

I was genuinely excited to make my way for the first time to fortyfivedownstairs – the renowned independent not-for-profit gallery and theatre. It was great to have fellow TPO writer/theatre major Jenny as my guide to the Paris-end Flinders Lane…

‘The One’ at fortyfivedownstairs

Dark, humorous, and vicious. The One closes out the inaugural Poppy Seed Festival and this ‘one’ you don’t want to miss. The 65 minute show packs a punch. The dark comedy features Harry and Jo, an intelligent, engaging, attractive, and…

Someone Like Thomas Banks: a journey to selfhood

‘Someone like Thomas Banks’ is a warm, personal show that takes you on ride into the travails of becoming your own self despite the challenge of physical disability and sexual difference. Prepare to be welcomed into a very lively personal…