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 …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Les Trois Soeurs by Simon Stone after Anton Chekhov (Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe, Paris) Humphrey Bower I’ve been an admirer of Simon Stone’s work since his early productions of Spring Awakening and Platonov with The Hayloft …
Stage Postcard from Adelaide: OzAsia and Australian Theatre Forum Humphrey Bower Hotel (OzAsia Festival); Asian Dramaturgs’ Network Symposium, ‘Dramaturgies of the Social and Cultural’ I was in Adelaide last week for …
Opera, Reviews, Stage, Theatre Adelaide Festival – Schaubuhne’s Richard III, Kosky’s Saul Humphrey Bower As a friend and colleague remarked to me when we met up to see a show at the Adelaide Festival …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Perth Festival: The Encounter, Opus No. 7, Lady Eats Apple Humphrey Bower I only arrived back in Perth last weekend after six weeks’ absence, so was just in time to catch a …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Postcard from Perth: Claire Cunningham, Guide Gods, Give Me A Reason to Live; Simon Stone, The Wild Duck Humphrey Bower Among the selection of shows I saw at Wendy Martin’s inaugural Perth Festival, those that stood out of for me …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Perth festival: Nicola Gunn, Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster; James Berlyn, I Know You’re There Humphrey Bower Perth International Arts Festival and Fringe World 2015 have come to an end, and the city settles back into the …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Adelaide Festival reviews: Go Down, Moses; The James Plays; The Young King Humphrey Bower I’ve just returned from a whirlwind weekend at the Adelaide Festival, seeing three stylistically very different shows about a legendary …
Music, Reviews, Stage Postcard from Perth: Fringe World, Loaded, Gillian Welch Humphrey Bower Perth Fringe World is in full swing and has drawn your correspondent back into the fray – at least as …
News & Commentary, Stage Postcard from Perth: Extinction, The Fever and The Fret, Fox and PTC in crisis Humphrey Bower In the last few days I’ve seen new productions by three of Perth’s surviving major and small-to-medium theatre companies. I …
