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Ingram’s foil-mouthed dilettante with a penchant for Winnie Blues and straight shooting hilarity could easily live again in a sequel, a spin-off off or a character study on how the hell we got through 1985.

The Scoop 

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All five actors have much to commend them, though it’s hard to look past the imposing Amy Ingram. She jumps about like a bull in a china shop, imposing her will on the others, forever writing up their changing ideas on a large board in their imposing work room..

Stage Whispers

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Amy Ingram gives the boldest performance of the night as loud mouthed, take no prisoners Sharon. An ex-bikie gang member, she dominates the group, and an audience favourite. Much of the play’s comedy, yes it is a dramedy, stems from Ingram’s work.

Sydney Arts Guide

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With five richly detailed and impassioned performers—Amy Ingram, Genevieve Lemon, Seán O’Shea, Georgie Parker, and Julia Robertson—the production seizes our attention from the outset and holds us firmly in its grasp throughout. Ingram’s portrayal of ex-jailbird Sharon is particularly winning, her brusque humour shaping much of the production’s tone.

Suzy Go See

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Amy Ingram’s Sharon is the high octane engine of the room, commanding attention and keeping her well-oiled team on track personally and professionally.  Sharon is part ex-bikie, part ex-crim and all heart. And she loves TV. Ingram moves with impeccable comic timing, almost stealing every scene and punchline. Sharon is a lesson in Aussie pluck and cutting the crap, and Ingram blends this pragmatism with genuine warmth.​

Faith In Theatres 

 

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE(ABRIDGED) ​

The trio of Amy Ingram, Stephen Hirst, and Tomas Pocilujko shine from start to finish. Each brings a unique energy to the stage, and together they are relentless and fearless in their pursuit of laughs. The play is a challenge in itself, claiming to fit all of Shakespeare’s 37 plays in just 97 minutes. It is no easy feat. However, each scene, each wig change and lighting mishap jusadds to this messy delight. 

T​he Scoop

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Everything you think you know about Shakespeare and his supposedly boring plays will be proven wrong by a fantastic new production, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), directed by Darren Gilshenan.  Knowing that "Brevity is the soul of wit” you see all 37 plays in the record time of 97 minutes rejuvenated with the riotous comedy that old Shaky perchance to dream of, by the funniest three actors in Australia: Amy Ingram (Pride and Prejudice, Cinderella); Stephen Hirst (A Very Naughty Christmas, Macbeth) and Tomas Pocilujko (Murder at the Manor, Plied and Prejudice).

 

It is the best production of Shakespeare that I've seen, and as a massive fan of the Bard, I’ve seen hundreds all over the world, including those by the RSC in Stratford and at The Globe in London. If you love Shakespeare or hate it, young or old, you will not stop laughing. My jaw was aching the next day. I laughed so much!

 

The trio are risqué, unique and cannot be trumped by any thespian troop for entertainment value. With their rapier wit, quick thinking repartee and incredible skills, they are a multitude of characters of both sexes, including the all-inclusive cross-dressing.

4 ZZZ

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​​​​​PRIDE AND PREjudICE

Amy Ingram was a revelation as both Charlotte Lucas and Caroline Bingley, brilliantly switching between the two very different characters. She brought a wonderfully pompous air to Ms Bingley, playing her with sharp snobbery, and then switched gears to portray Charlotte’s more grounded, down-on-her-luck nature with subtlety and heart.

Stage Buzz Brisbane

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What you might not expect is how acidly funny Amy Ingram is as Mr Bingley’s arrogant sister, whose disdain for Elizabeth is an armour against her feelings for Darcy, or how quietly moving Ingram is as Lizzie’s best friend Charlotte Lucas, facing old-maid status at 27 and determined to avoid it with the help of the odious Mr Collins (Cameron Hurry).

Sydney Mornign Herald

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Amy Ingram has the crowd in stitches with her delicious portrayal of Bingley’s sister. She delivers the snobby, passive-aggressive put-downs with absolute relish. 

The Scoop

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Storytelling requires some doubling of roles, which serves to further showcase performer talents. Amy Ingram is an early standout as sensible, matter-of-fact Charlotte, whose wise statements about happiness and compromise are balanced with witty quips about her age. Her seemingly throwaway facial expressions and gestures elevate characterisation that could so easily have been one-note and her talent is especially seen as she then changes totally in demeaner and vocal tone when in role also as the nonplussed Ms Bingley where increasingly less passive aggressive dialogue is realised with unnerving chill.

Blue Curtains Brisbane 

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​FOURTEEN 

​​​Amy Ingram took on key roles to support Shannon such as Rhonda and Morgan, and she is nothing short of a comedic genius. Her timing and delivery set the audience cackling at times, and the characters that she portrayed brought such joy and warmth to the stage that it could not be denied. My personal favourite character of Ingrams was the illustrious Chantelle, and her

seductive way with words. Ingram was a comedic lynch-pin throughout, and I would happily learn about recycling from any of her characters.

4th Wall Reviews ​​

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BERNHARDT\HAMLET

Amy Ingram was a delightful Lysette, her portrayal of a down-to-earth Ophelia quite hilarious. 

Arts Hub

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Rounding out the phenomenal cast, Amy Ingram (Lysette), Gareth Davies (Raoul) and Leon Cain (Francois) all delivered outstanding performances in what must be one of the strongest team’s I have seen QTC put together. There was barely a beat out of place, and the emotion, dedication, passion, and anger displayed from each one of them made this play the strong performance that it was.

Theatre Travels 

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MAGIC MIKE LIVE AUSTRALIA

Our guide to the smorgasbord of eye candy is Amy Ingram – a bawdy emcee who becomes a lightning rod for audience lust and a fount of lubricious humour. (“Carpe dickem!” she shouts in one especially high-minded moment. “Seize the dick!”…Ingram really knows how to work an audience….

The Age 

 

The surge of relief that the woman is part of the show is replaced with a warm glow of awesome as she calls out this tokenistic representation of what women want. Amy Ingram strips the male MC of his microphone and she takes over. She is his equal and she will be our voice on this night as we celebrate sexuality and let our inner Jezebels honour their wonton ways without shame....Once Ingram has the reins you really are in for the ride of a lifetime.
Australian Stage 

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It is not only the muscular men who capture attention at Magic Mike Live, with a hilarious and engaging performance from actress Amy Ingram as the symbolic ‘everywoman’. 

Timeout 

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... it thankfully makes way for a classier expression commanded by MC Amy Ingram as she explains what she and most real women want in their ideal man. Ingram is a wonderfully bold and powerful expression of an 'everywoman' as she lets the ladies of the audience know that it is ok to have the courage to ask for what they look for in a man.

Broadway World

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... but first a shower of roses is in order for the two women who arguably stole the show – MC, Amy Ingram and “mermaid”, Max Francisco....Amy’s hilarious balls to the wall performance left us in no doubt that this was a show for the girls, that the guys were going to give it to us and that the pleasure would be all ours.

KidSpot 

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Unlike a standard physical male revue, Magic Mike Live is propelled by a narrative that is told by the female emcee as she guides us through the story of helping young ‘Mike’ finds his confidence both on the dance floor and with the ladies. In this evening’s performance the role of the emcee was played by Amy Ingram who successfully made the audience feel at home and kept the laughs rolling. She played the role perfectly in that Amy was just like one of us in the audience … that could be any average woman on the stage with the boys!

Dancelife

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CINDERELLA 

You simply fall in love with Ingram’s Ashley – she is pretty and perky, but forever keeping her energy under wraps so as not to reveal her ever-anxious personality. She moves effortlessly from bubbly and funny to sad and lonely – the woman longing to believe in the pop-song fantasies but equally wanting to peel off the veneer and just be accepted for being herself – love of 80s pop, pet cat, herbal tea collection, and all.

Stage Whispers

 

Through the little looks and slight movements of their hesitations, we laugh both with and at them. Indeed, in this regard, things are not overplayed, but rather realised to their full, uncomfortable potential. Ingram uses every aspect of physicality to show the anxious insecurity of her character’s second guess of herself and her potential new beau’s motivations.

Blue Curtains 

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These two actors have sexual chemistry in droves! It radiates off the stage, making some awkwardly bumbling scenes watchable only through your fingers; they’re that good. 

Scenstr

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I Just Came To Say Goodbye

Performances are focused and fluid, the text judiciously arranged to foreshadow events to come. At times the stories presented are simplistic, even banal, such a friend’s betrayal at a karaoke bar. At other times the struggles are life-changing, the events discussed immense and unsettling. At no point does the production feel exploitative. Instead of betraying the secrets they have been entrusted with, I Just Came So Say Goodbye honours them in a finely tuned and fascinating work of theatre.

Arts Hub 

 

Blackrock

You melt into scenes with O'Leary and Ingram as they show raw human emotion without any frills. You believe them Completely

XS Entertianment 

 

Low Level Panic

In her bold, utterly unselfconscious synchronised bath routine (and all else ) Ingram is a revelation: gradually, sneakily, moving from physical to emotional nakedness 

SOS Review

 

Ingram, a Queensland actor making her Sydney stage debut, is magnetic as the bolshie yet bereft Jo.

Jason Blake, Sydney Morning Herald

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Performances are passionately vivid. The marvellous Amy Ingram leaves a remarkable impression with her impeccable timing and disarming authenticity as Jo, a character with endearing vivacity who nonetheless suffers from the unfortunate, but all too common, obsession with her self-determined physical inadequacies. The actor brings a valuable dignity to a discussion that tends to present her role as a victim of circumstance, and her brilliant sense of humour is the spoonful of sugar that makes the caustic medicine go down

Suzygoessee.com

 

Ingram is bold and brave as Jo. She’s utterly compelling, and navigates Jo’s vast emotional journey beautifully.

Talking arts.com.au

 

THE TRAGEDY OF KING Richard the Third

Amy Ingram is a seductive, deliciously wicked delight. 

XS Entertainment

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The Odd couple

As the ‘sweet bits of crumpet’ from the apartment upstairs, the two Pigeon sisters, Gwendolyn (Lauren Jackson) and Cecily (Amy Ingram), in Oscar Wilde tribute,  appear almost like an over-the-top French and Saunders type giggly double-entendred caricature sketch, however, are gleeful editions to Act Two. Indeed, Ingram shows some of her best work when through mere glance or ordinary word she elicits some of the biggest audience laughs.

Blue Curtains Brisbane 

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The Seagull

There are also particularly impressive appearances from a fiery Amy Ingram as Masha

The Daily Review 

 

Spiralling furiously into the outer orbit of all this is Masha (most brilliantly played by Amy Ingram) who is tortured by her unreturned love for Konstantin and repulsed by loyal Medvedenko’s (Lucas Stibbard) unshakable love for her. Poor Medvendenko being the only decent one of the lot of them. Ingram undoubtedly gives the performance of the evening when Masha devastatingly predicts her very disappointing future even as she is right in the middle of resisting it. Ingram plays Masha six feet out in front of her face; she is brash, nasty and tarty and so brutally honest you can’t help but feel sick for her and her unavoidable annihilation – the living death is the worst of them all.

Aussietheatre.com.au

 

AWKWARD CONVERSATION:MEDEA REDUX

As Medea, Amy Ingram more than does justice to one of the greatest female roles in the theatrical canon. Teetering on the edge of audience empathy throughout she shows not only a heartbroken woman hell-bent on a revenge plot 14 years in the making, but also something of the giddiness of the undying infatuation and naïve innocence that attracted the high school teacher who became her exploitative childhood partner. And while Ingram does bitter better than anyone, it is her initial vulnerability that is the most memorable aspect of her performance.

Blue Curtains Brisbane 

 

I Want To Know What Love Is

We know Amy Ingram’s comedy is excellent, and this production allows her a little tragedy too. It’s clearer, and sadder than ever before.

XS Entertainment

 

Cosi

Amy Ingram is bold and ballsy as food-and-Lewis obsessed Cherry

Sydney Morning Herald

 

Amy Ingram, one the best of the new crop of comedy actors, was great as the sex-obsessed, knife wielding psycho. Not the person to meet in a dark alley!

Theblurb.com.au

 

Rabbit

Amy Ingram’s performance of Bella was both hilarious and heartbreaking. She is a completely infectious performer (and I promise I mean that in a good way) with her energy, her laughter, her presence, and her complete and utter fearlessness on stage. I don’t think I’ve seen a stronger ensemble all year – every performer could give and take as well as the next.

AustralianStage.com.au

 

The cast is headed by Amy Ingram as Bella, a successful publicist, in a performance that is as robust as it is gentle and nuanced. It’s also in perfect sync with Raine’s shrewd take on friendship and contemporary society. 

Actorsgreenroom.net

 

Fat Pig

For those familiar with LaBute's work you will have an inkling of how this story may end but nothing will prepare you for the actual finale. It is one of the most moving pieces of theatre I have seen in recent times and Ingram carries it off with great sensitivity. It is fair to say that we should be seeing much more of this very able actor in the future.

ABC.net.au

 

Amy Ingram, as the warmly humorous Helen, moves between a sparkling self-deprecating honesty and a soul-crushing devastation with consummate ease.

Scene magazine