Alan Brough’s new musical for children suffers from thoughtless stereotyping, says youth critic Gully Thompson
Gully Thompson

Gully Thompson
Gully Thompson is a 15 year old musician and writer. He was official critic for the Melbourne Fringe XS experimental children's theatre festival and writes on theatre for young people for Witness.
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An experiment that doesn’t quite deliver, We’re Probably Really Really Happy Right Now at Theatre Works is nevertheless a deeply interesting work of queer performance, says Gully Thompson
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Victorian Opera’s interpretation of the classic opera The Sleeping Beauty – written originally in the wake of the Spanish Flu pandemic – has fresh power in the age of Covid, says Gully Thompson
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The evocation of the child within animates the charm of La Mama’s Jofus and the Whale, writes youth critic Gully Thompson
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15-year-old Gully Thompson investigates online pandemic theatre for children and finds that La Mama’s Super Jenny is pretty close to super
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‘An auditory feast’: New Music icon Margaret Leng Tan’s biographical work rocks 14 year old Gully Thompson’s musical world
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For 14 year old Gully Thompson, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is merely an exercise in nostalgia and visual dazzle
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‘This is not a show: it’s a wake-up call.’ Youth critic Gully Thompson on Born in a Taxi’s Children of the Evolution
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Youth critic Gully Thompson is both enraptured and frustrated by Unicorn Theatre’s The End of Eddy
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Our youth correspondent Gully Thompson on the Melbourne season of Terrapin’s A Not So Traditional Story, opening soon at the Brisbane Festival
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