Our reviewers give their verdict on Sydney Festival’s first batch of shows, including Send For Nellie; A Bucket of Beetles; Il Tabarro; Smashed: The Nightcap; Encantado; and Bananaland.
It shouldn’t be this easy to take a Soviet-era operetta about a housing crisis and set it in modern-day Melbourne, but that’s what Constantine Costi has done.
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