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Melinda Oliver

Comedy, Reviews, Stage

David O'Doherty review (Melbourne International Comedy Festival)

Melinda Oliver

Are jokes funnier when told in an Irish accent? Or are they just damn funny?

Live, Music, Reviews

Bertie Blackman music review (NGV, Melbourne)

Melinda Oliver

Bertie Blackman transitions from playing electric guitar to drums to keyboard while singing with the ease of a life-long musician. …

Dance, Reviews, Stage

Vitesse dance review (Arts Centre, Melbourne)

Melinda Oliver

Moving slowly but purposefully towards a dramatically depicted seascape to the sound of howling wind and menacing drumbeats, the opening …

Stage

Effie the Virgin Bride review (The Tivoli, Brisbane)

Melinda Oliver

Swaggering across the stage, checking out the chicks but bemoaning his lack of lovemaking (prostate problems), Uncle Vasili threatened to steal …

Live, Music, Reviews, Stage

St Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2016 review (Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne)

Melinda Oliver

Spinning like a whirling dervish, singer Lauren Mayberry of Scottish band Chvrches was perhaps channeling a higher power that gifted …

Live, Music, Reviews, Visual Arts

Sugar Mountain festival (VCA, Melbourne)

Melinda Oliver

With no mud like Splendour, nudie-runs like Meredith, the grit of Laneway or idealism of Golden Plains, it was a …

Dance, Reviews, Stage

Last Work – Batsheva Dance Company (Melbourne Festival)

Melinda Oliver

A man faces away from the audience, seated, hunched over, and frantically moving his right arm up and down.

Stage

Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games review (Arts Centre, Melbourne)

Melinda Oliver

It’s a spectacle of shameless showbiz, with singers in sequinned gowns, glitzy holographics, a love-versus-desire storyline, and Irish dancers that …

Stage

20:21 Australian Ballet review (Arts Centre, Melbourne)

Melinda Oliver

The cast of 20:21 deserve an Olympic medal for sheer endurance, power and magnificence.

Stage

Cinderella review (Arts Centre, Melbourne)

Melinda Oliver

Most of us dream of being rescued at some stage in our lives — from a mundane job, a fading …

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THE LIST

Books

A legal approach to the decline and fall of the United States

Kevin Brianton

Music, Reviews

Sleaford Mods ‘All That Glue’ review: a necessary album for fans and newcomers alike

Benjamin Woods

Books, Reviews

‘The Shifting Landscape’ review: Western Victoria crime novel showcases joy in storytelling

Rosemary Sorensen

News & Commentary

How did we get here? Why artists became so dispensable

Neil Pigot

Books, Music, Reviews

Kim Salmon and the Formula for Grunge: a fascinating read for fans and newcomers alike

Tony Thompson

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