Melbourne’s theatre awards night was an eccentric, apocalyptic trip
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By Cameron Woodhead
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Portentous music plays as bushfires blaze under a night sky. An animated black hole drifts past our galaxy, erupting into a giant fireball. Suddenly, Uncle Jack Charles emerges from a cosmic doorway to deliver a pep-talk on the inestimable value of art, and you realise this is not Armageddon, but the opening of the 2021 Green Room Awards.
Uncle Jack Charles, patron of the Green Room Awards Association.
Unlike the cancelled Helpmanns or the delayed Tonys, Melbourne’s local performing arts gongs were handed out virtually on Monday night in an eccentric ceremony streamed online.
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