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Katherine Lyall-Watson is a playwright and theatre reviewer and has been an active and passionate member of the theatre community for 20 years. Her first play, Tinder, was short-listed for the 2008 Queensland Premier’s Drama Award. Her next plays, Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls and The Kerensky Project are currently in development.

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Posted 9 February 2010 - 9:31am With Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) having injuries and replacement actors in two recent shows (The Little Dog Laughed and last year's School of Arts), I wonder if it's time to 2 comments...read on »

Performance Anxiety

Posted 5 February 2010 - 4:21pm

Brian Lucas's one-man show Performance Anxiety is a highlight at WTF?

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Playwrights and professional work

Posted 28 January 2010 - 9:59am

More stats for those whose minds work that way…with many thanks to Kate Foy for starting the discussion with her posts on her Groundling blog.

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The Gruffalo reviewed

Posted 21 January 2010 - 10:23am

You’d better be quick!

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Le Grand Cirque reviewed

Posted 9 January 2010 - 8:04am

I was lucky enough to take my family to see Le Grand Cirque’s

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Cinderella meets Prince

Posted 8 January 2010 - 12:45pm

Cinderella reviewed

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The National Play Festival in Brisbane

Posted 31 December 2009 - 9:06am

PlayWriting Australia’s 2010 National Play Festival is heading to Brisbane in February.

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Are we more parochial in Brisbane?

Posted 20 November 2009 - 10:04am The lack of comments on some posts and heated discussion on others has been put down by at least one reader as due 37 comments...read on »

Toy Symphony reviewed

Posted 13 November 2009 - 2:47pm

Where does autobiography stop and fiction begin? It’s a question that’s fascinated me for quite some time, so it was a delight to see

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The Crucible reviewed

Posted 30 October 2009 - 11:29am

“A triumph!” I overheard the woman in the row in front of me telling her partner. “It’s a triumph!”

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