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

Maxim Boon, Journalist

Reviews / Arts
DeAnne Smith: Worth It (MICF)
"The laughs flowed lull-free from start to finish."
Features / Arts
Hit Indie Theatre Show About Queer Love Beyond The Mainstream Heads To MICF
"I knew there were a lot of people who were just desperate and needed to hear this kind of story."
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The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui (Sydney Theatre Company)
"Who needs Trump, when political theatre can be this damn powerful."
Features / Arts
Director Stephen Nicolazzo On Giving Cult Play 'Abigail's Party' An Unexpected Spin
"I'm still bringing my aesthetic and my irreverence and my queerness to the way I'm reading the work."
Reviews / Arts
The Pacifist's Guide To The War On Cancer (Complicité)
"An extraordinary window on the violence of this illness but also on the tenacity of the human spirit."
Reviews / Arts
American Idiot
"A one-note and drama-lite production that's often little more than polished karaoke."
Features / Arts
Hyper-Real Artist Patricia Piccinini Explores Environmental Decline And The New Meaning Of Nature
"We may believe that our relationship to the world is entirely cerebral, but that just isn't true. In the end, we're all just a bag of chemicals and hormones."
Features / Arts
How A Girl From A Small American Farm Town Became The World's Most Celebrated Burlesque Icon
"I want my mind blown. If my mind is blown, then the audience's mind is going to be blown. It's that simple."
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The Children (MTC)
"A simple yet sophisticated domestic drama about the manmade perils pushing our species towards extinction."
Reviews / Arts
Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical
"A heartfelt ode to the nurturing importance of community, belonging, and found families"
Features / Arts
Down To Clown: Demi Lardner, Tom Walker and Zoe Coombs-Marr On The Art Of Being Silly
"I felt like it was an unfunny joke that I was doing intentionally, and that's one of the central principles of comedy: manufacture a failure, then save it."
Features / Arts
Pamela Rabe Stars In An Ecological Thriller About Nuclear Disasters And Baby Boomer Guilt
"It's certainly informed by the terror we find in those more familiar apocalyptic stories. But this play is more about how you live with that dread, how you exist day to day under a cloud of danger."
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