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Barb West and Fran Murphy - partners
Barb and Fran also work together in an "intercultural communication and training company" they own. They have just finished writing a 620,000 word encyclopaedia of Asian sociology, and are massively getting into Melbourne's cultural life after living in the US for nearly ten years.
162 reviews
Princess Cabaret show details
7/10
As seen by Barb on 23 March 08
A fantastic concept for a show: revisit six of Disney’s princesses and see what happens after the “happily ever after” ending. Very creative original songs, great voices, good acting, and a plot twist at the end that makes it all worth while. However, I felt the show could’ve been much more edgy than it was – this material is rife with alternative possibilities and only a few of them were actually taken. Often the show resorts to the same kind of sexist stereotyping as that which the troupe claimed they were trying to deconstruct; I was particularly annoyed by the refrain, repeated many times, that one princess or another should “just die.” And the cliquishness of the princesses is neither funny nor congruent with the raison d’etre of the show.
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