The Brisbane festival podcast: episode four by Vicky Frost

' Brisbane festival podcast episode three' Brisbane festival podcast episode two' Brisbane festival podcast episode oneToday's podcast comes to you from the riverbank of the Brisbane Powerho…

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Guardian Australia's Brisbane Festival Podcast: episode three by Vicky Frost

This year is the first time there has been an independent theatre curator at Brisbane festival. David Berthold, La Boite Theatre's Artistic Director, has curated the programme at the Theatre…

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Guardian Australia's Brisbane Festival Podcast: episode two by Vicky Frost

Ryan van Winkle is Edinburgh City Libraries reader in residence, a program he created to focus on engaging and growing audiences for poetry. He is in Australia performing at the Brisbane Fe…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:58pm on September 15, 2013[SHARE]

The Wizard of Oz " review by Vicky Frost

Brisbane Festival: Roundhouse: Dangerous Ensemble's tale is a long way from Kansas " but this inventive take on the classic story doesn't quite deliverA red-haired, tough-mouthed drunk­ w…

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Guardian Australia's Brisbane festival podcast: episode one by Vicky Frost

In this first podcast fom Guardian Australia at the Brisbane Festival, Vicky Frost, Van Badham and Katherine Viner discuss their early highlights including Urban, a circus from the streets o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:05pm on September 14, 2013[SHARE]

Ute Lemper: the love poems of Pablo Neruda " review by Vicky Frost

Brisbane Festival: Concert Hall, QPACUte Lemper's new song cycle of the Chilean poet's poems is followed by a crowd-pleasing romp through the best of cabaretThere is an odd tension in this d…

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Sydney Theatre Company to collaborate with Australian Defence Force by Vicky Frost

Artistic director Andrew Upton says verbatim play about Australian troops' experience during wartime will feature 'dangerous political voices'Sydney Theatre Company is to collaborate with th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:23pm on September 12, 2013[SHARE]

The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe " review by Vicky Frost

A revelatory and celebratory production, with four remarkable women and their stories at its centreI'd have quite liked to have gone to see The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe with Tony…

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The Dragon " review by Vicky Frost

Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne"Not enough shows begin in point form," croon Tripod as they introduce this new adaptation of Evgeny Shwarz's satirical comment on totalitarian regimes. Unfortuna…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:46pm on July 3, 2013[SHARE]

King Kong - review by Vicky Frost

Regent Theatre, MelbourneThis is a story of two Kongs. King Kong the six metre tall marionette, weighing in at more than a tonne, that draws gasps from the audience when it appears on stage,…

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Tom Stoppard returns to TV for BBC drama by Vicky Frost

Benedict Cumberbatch plays 'the last Tory' Christopher Tietjens in five-part adaptation of Parade's End for BBC2He plays an emotionally repressed, highly intelligent gentleman with a complic…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 2:39pm on July 27, 2012[SHARE]

My TV hero: Abi Morgan on Victoria Wood by Vicky Frost

People underestimate how difficult comic writing is " and what Victoria Wood does is brilliantVictoria Wood is the domestic chorus of my family life. I've watched her through the 1980s, 1990…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 3:00pm on July 18, 2011[SHARE]

The best TV for spring 2011 by Vicky Frost

Dominic West and Romola Garai star in brilliant 1950s newsroom drama The Hour by Abi Morgan. Good enough to fill the gaping void left by Mad Men. Plus more TV goldExileJohn Simm and Jim Broa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 3:00pm on April 5, 2011[SHARE]