Love Lust Lost (Melbourne Australia) (review)

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Before the promise welcome to theater first
with Alex First. Immersive and interactive theater

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excites me. It always has.
We don't see enough of it in Australia.

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That's why I entered the austral in
Collingwood, which is a former theater,

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cinema and roller skating rink that dates
back to nineteen twenty one, with

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a heightened sense of anticipation. Forty
three rooms, eight characters, with us

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the audience free to go where we
want, when we want, over ninety

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minutes. The theme is a subterranean
adventure on board the submarine EV Nautilus,

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piloted by Captain Anderson Sandro Colarelli.
After being let down a thin corridor littered

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with dozens of scuba tanks and donning
plastic ponchos, we enter a room where

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the Captain's treasures are on display.
Many of the antiquities are in perspect's cases.

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We're invited into a decompression chamber,
ready for our dive below the surface,

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complete with suitably sounds. Once below, the nooks and crannies of the

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underwater craft arours to explore. The
crew consists of a ragtag bunch of oddbods.

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And reprobates. I've already referenced the
captain. His only child daughter,

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Sandy Brie Emrick, has never been
to the surface or experienced life outside the

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vessel. Her best friend, confidante, and protector is lobster Claude Chloe to

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On, showing more than a passing
interest in Sandy, is the dashing chan

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Jeremy Lloyd Stefano. The mustachioed head
chef Christian Santi has a snidely whiplash quality

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about him. The latter was a
fictional character that appeared as the main antagonist

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in the Rocky and Bullwinkle animated television
series. The half human sea creature Callum

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Mooney appears menacing but is shy.
Silasia meg Hickey is the tantalizing sea Witch,

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a purveyor of the dark arts.
And finally, there's the lithe and

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long limbed charmer and seducer trink Show
Eber. The ev Nautilus is a popuri

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of spaces, from food preparation areas
and living quarters to a herbarium, a

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child's diminutive jumping castle, and a
beauty parlor. There's a love swing and

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a room for sexual deviance, plus
a decidedly nasty looking operating theater with blood

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spattered walls and floor, and much
more besides. As we clamber up and

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down narrow staircases and move into the
rooms, we interact with the cast,

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who perform a series of mini shows. The captains spoke gibberish to us.

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We witnessed two disparate pole dancers,
the Chef and Chan, fighting in the

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cage, and musical interludes. In
fact, the show culminates with a cavalcade

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of music, song and dance on
board the biggest and broadest wooden table I've

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ever seen. These talented and versatile
artistes are undoubtedly melodious. Written by Cursed

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and Siddle and Helen Cassidy, while
the former is also the creative director.

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Broad Encounters Love Last Lost is an
experience to savor well designed by Mike Finch,

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Josh McIntosh and James Brown and choreographed
by Joe Cottrell. It's enticing,

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imaginative, esoteric, and provocative think
sight, sound and smell, and immersing

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oneself in the magic, mystery and
Mayhem. Sound design is courtesy of Michael

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Theiler and Perey von Sturmer, with
lighting by Jason Glenwright. The musical arrangements

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are the work of Mick Levoch.
Love Last Lost follows the success of the

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gothic hit A Midnight Visit, which
ran for sixteen weeks in Melbourne in twenty

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nineteen, and this promises to be
another crowd favorite, playing at the austral

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until the twenty ninth of October twenty
twenty three. It's also good for repeat

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visitors insofar as the team behind it
has nine hours of content that vary between

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shows. For bookings, go to
TRIPLEW dot Love Lastlost dot com. You've

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