Cassie Tongue
Theatre and Comics Critic at Freelance
Deputy Editor at AussieTheatre.com
Theatre Reviewer and Critic at Time Out Sydney
theatre critic, musicals critic, arts & culture writer. ask me about the x-men. she/her. your teacher says take off your robes
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3 weeks ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Cassie Tongue
Inside Wharf 1 Theatre sits a constructed, constrained tableau, where a black box in the playing space marks out a narrowed, forced proscenium. Inside that is a distinctly unreal grey mound, lightly textured but too hard and with too much shine to read as rock or earth, backdropped by clean, white nothing. It’s so unlike any space in nature – so clear in its refusal to conjure a relatable image of a world we know – that it feels both abstractly artistic and scientific.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Cassie Tongue
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is one of those films you really should have on your bucket list. Pedro Almodóvar’s 1988 Spanish farce (currently streaming on SBS on Demand) follows actress Pepa, whose lover Iván has broken up with her over answering machine, and her long day trying to get in touch with him. Along the way, she collides with Iván’s ex-wife, a young couple who turn out to also be connected to him, and her best friend Candela. Men are ruining everyone’s day.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Cassie Tongue
Five years ago, locked in our homes and isolated from our loved ones, we invented new rituals to keep ourselves sane. We baked bread. We played trivia with friends on Zoom. We replaced going to the theatre with binge-watching 237 episodes of medical drama Grey’s Anatomy – twice. (Or was that just me?)And for many of us in New South Wales, the daily 11am coronavirus press conferences led by then-premier Gladys Berejiklian became sacred appointment television.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Cassie Tongue
If any musical deserves the arena treatment, it’s Les Misérables. Hear me out! Like the best pop and rock music gigs, Les Mis is stacked with emotional bangers, from top to bottom. From almost the very beginning of its life on stage, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s adaptation of Victor Hugo’s brick of a novel has presented its music in concert.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Cassie Tongue
One must imagine Sisyphus happy. So goes the oft-quoted conclusion of Albert Camus’ 1942 treatise The Myth of Sisyphus – comparing all of human existence to an endless struggle. Camus has also been playing on the UK comedian Sara Pascoe’s mind, and she has a bone or two to pick with the French author in her show I Am a Strange Gloop; the name is an equally cerebral reference to a book by the philosopher Douglas Hofstadter.
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