News & Commentary, Stage Race and identity politics in theatre in the USA Humphrey Bower Postcard from Minneapolis and New York City Blackout Improv; Mixed Blood Theatre, Prescient Harbingers; Aleshea Harris, What to Send Up …
Dance, Opera, Reviews, Stage Actéon opera review and Dust on the Shortbread dance review (Perth) Humphrey Bower Site-specific theatre and performance has become all the rage in recent years. At their best, such productions allow for a …
Live, Music, Reviews Tristan and Isolde review (WASO, Perth) Humphrey Bower Tristan und Isolde, Stuart Skelton, Gun-Brit Barkmin, Ekaterina Gubanova, Boaz Daniel, Ain Anger, WA Symphony Orchestra, Asher Fisch, Perth Concert …
Music, Reviews, Stage Adelaide Festival Postcard: Kings of War, Human Requiem, Bennelong, Xenos, Azza, Taha Humphrey Bower Last week I was in Adelaide for the final week of the Festival and saw a series of works – …
Dance, Reviews, Stage, Theatre Perth Festival reviews: Nassim, Far Side of the Moon, William Yang, Jude Kelly, Vessel, White Spirit, The Second Woman, You Know We Belong Together Humphrey Bower The performances, talks and conversations I’ve attended or participated in over the last two weeks of the Festival (which closed …
Exhibitions, Reviews, Visual Arts Six Perth Festival visual arts reviews Humphrey Bower Lisa Reihana, Emissaries; Zadok Ben-David, Human Nature; Pilar Mata Dupont, Undesirable Bodies; Christopher Charles, Banjawarn; Kimsooja, Sewing/Walking and Zone of …
Reviews, Stage Perth Festival reviews: Barbershop Chronicles, Il n’est pas encore minuit, Hand Stories, Katrina Ballads, Farewell to Paper, To A Simple Rock’n’Roll…Song Humphrey Bower A festival is at once a communal act of celebration and of commemoration. The Dionysiad was a celebration of the …
Dance, Reviews, Stage, Theatre, Visual Arts Perth Festival reviews: Siren Song, Beyond Time, Repatriate, Museum of Water, Attractor Humphrey Bower Actor, writer and regular Daily Review contributor, Humphrey Bower has been engaged by the Perth Festival as a “Festival Navigator“. He …
News & Commentary Humphrey Bower ‘navigates’ the Perth Festival Humphrey Bower I begin writing this, my first blog post as ‘Festival Navigator’ for the Perth Festival 2018 on the long haul back to …
Festivals, Stage Four reviews from the Jerome Bel ‘festival’ in Paris: witty, provocative and deliberately boring Humphrey Bower ‘Portrait: Jérôme Bel’, Autumn Festival, Paris: ‘Disabled Theatre’, ‘Pichet Klunchun and Myself’, ‘The Show Must Go On’, ‘Un Spectacle en …