Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Sam Baran, Journalist

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The Cherry Orchard
"Live musical accompaniment lends the whole play a haunting, heavy air and gives weight to every utterance."
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Tommy Dean: Lessons Learned Gaming
"He flows effortlessly from one topic to the next, weaving a show with no apparent structure into a continuous, outrageous story."
Reviews / Film & TV
Spanish Affair 2
"It manages to steer mostly clear of the tired string of 'hilarious' misunderstandings which often substitute for plot."
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That Eye, The Sky
"By the end of That Eye, The Sky we felt as overwhelmed and empty as the characters suffering on stage."
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Ladies Day
"Sexual violence in gay communities is an important topic which deserves proper treatment."
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Godspell Reimagined
"Reimagined remains an unapologetic parody of the era, brought up to date with modern political and cultural references."
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Dinkum Assorted
"You'll end up rooting for the cast of Dinkum Assorted and sharing in their cheerful and absurd sense of self-importance."
Reviews / Film & TV
The Crows Egg
"The Crow's Egg turns something as mundane as a quest for a pizza into breathless adventure."
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Now Add Honey
"Unless your tolerance for farcical, frustrating and ill-paced drama is unusually high, steer clear of Now Add Honey."
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Only The Dead
"Gory and violent but not to excess, Only The Dead is a hard watch, but worth it."
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Alex And Eve
"The ethnic and religious tension at Alex and Eve's core is genuinely engaging."
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The Merchant Of Venice
"An enmity that mirrors the intolerance we still see today in our society and the media."