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A strange evening of classic local theatre

Robyn Nevin shines in <em>Neighbourhood Watch</em>

12 April 2014

9:00 AM

12 April 2014

9:00 AM

Neighbourhood Watch, the new play by Lally Katz, is a story of an old Hungarian lady, living out her last days, making friends with a young wannabe actress and remembering the horrors of her own wartime girlhood. It is — formally — a mixed bag of a play involving a sometimes fruitful, sometimes chaotic collision between naturalism and expressionism.

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