Author: Zenobia Frost

Ten years since its origins as Club Briefs in Brisbane’s West End, Briefs comes home, studded with international accolades, to perform Close Encounters at Melt Festival. In Close Encounters, the Briefs spacemen have landed from the future to bring us hope – to let us know that everything is going to be okay. Hosted with

Abelone and Gerture, orphaned in a freak gardening accident, have taken to staying indoors. The disembodied voice of the playwright, Lally Katz (The Rabbits), invites us into their world: the enclosed suburban space that they expand with make-believe. Abelone is obsessed with winning an imagined Eisteddfod, but needs Gerture to commit to be Lady Macbeth

Set away from main Fringe venues at the Fringe Lodge (aka The Buckingham Arms), Dickinson’s Room is a site-specific work adapted from the poems and prose of Emily Dickinson. Bad Neighbour Theatre co-founder Charlotte Day and actor Miranda McCauley (playing Emily) have brought Dickinson’s Room to Adelaide from New York, via Edinburgh Fringe. Three small,

Johann (Benjamin Winspear) and Marianne (Marta Dusseldorp) live beautiful flat-packed lives equipped with two seen-and-not-heard children, sparse Swedish décor, and suitably European approaches to fidelity. Their lives and dinner parties are ruled by schedules, which – I imagine – would be managed in a bright leather planner with something forcefully mindful, like “MAKE IT MATTER”,

One the Bear is the co-creation of Candy Bowers and Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers of Black Honey Company. If intersectional feminism had a mega-church, their award-winning cabaret, Hot Brown Honey, would be its Sunday mass – I’ve seen them fire up some serious crowds. One the Bear is a very different offering from Black Honey

As the end becomes nigh, seven actors rush to complete a performance of Hamlet before everything goes dark. The Danger Ensemble’s The Hamlet Apocalypse seems like a simple concept but this subtle, densely layered play-within-a-play (and, briefly, play-within-a-play-within-a-play) juxtaposes a dystopic future against one of history’s most enduring works of theatre. The mood is set