The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.
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Sita Borhani

Review: Escape from the Breakup Forest – Mixtape Theatre Collective at Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts

by Sita Borhani 19 March 2013
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Main Image: Simon Hall I first saw this show in its infancy, at the USQ Arts Theatre in Toowoomba. It was a one-man job (well, one man and one puppet) [...]

Review: cloudCUCKOOland – heartbeast Vicious Theatre at Trinity Hall

by Sita Borhani 19 February 2013
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A karaoke musical based on Aristophanes’ The Birds entitled cloudCUCKOOland? I don’t really know what I expected. Stepping out of a rainy night into the beautiful Trinity Hall in The [...]

Review: Bye Bye Birdie – Harvest Rain Theatre Company at Brisbane Powerhouse

by Sita Borhani 3 December 2012
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Decades may come and decades may go, but tweenage girls – whether they’re swooning over Elvis, screaming for The Beatles, or weeping at the feet of One Direction – are [...]

Megan Shorey (Interview 34)

by Sita Borhani 26 November 2012
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Megan Shorey will never write a musical. Or so she tells me. But before I can wonder if I’m having a coffee with the wrong gal, she clarifies: “At Joymas [...]

Review: Children of War, La Boite indie and The Danger Ensemble in association with the Vanguard Youth Theatre

by Sita Borhani 22 November 2012
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Image: Courtesy La Boite Theatre I like the concept. Take a group of young characters pulled out of the myths surrounding the Trojan War and make them the seniors of [...]

Review: Some Dumb Play – Metro Arts Allies

by Sita Borhani 16 November 2012
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I still recall my first Choose Your Own Adventure book. Remember those? You read a chapter and then you’re faced with a choice – do the characters take the river [...]