Dance, Festivals Token Armies review (Melbourne International Arts Festival) Portia Conyers-East Chunky Move’s freshly appointed artistic director Antony Hamilton has created a piece of contemporary art with Token Armies that’s fit …
Dance, Festivals Grand Finale review (Melbourne International Arts Festival) Portia Conyers-East As Melbourne’s week of climate strikes drew to a close, Hofesh Shechter’s Grand Finale was staged in Melbourne’s State Theatre. …
Festivals, Stage Gender Euphoria review (Melbourne International Arts Festival) Anders Furze Taking to the stage inside the Spiegeltent, the artists of Gender Euphoria are collectively the largest cast of trans and …
Festivals, Stage Sex, violence and working class neglect: director Stewart Laing on ‘The End of Eddy’ Anders Furze When Édouard Louis’ debut novel The End of Eddy was published in France in 2014, it immediately caused a sensation. …
Festivals, Reviews, Stage A Brimful of Asha review (Melbourne International Arts Festival) Alison Barclay As a theatre director in Toronto, Ravi Jain made absolutely no money the year his mother Asha decided he should …
Festivals, Music What Girls Are Made Of review (Melbourne International Arts Festival) Alison Barclay At 16, Cora Bissett declared “I want to be in a band!”. By 18 she was out of a band, …
Festivals, Reviews Kamasi Washington review (Melbourne International Arts Festival) Shae Wiedermann Taking the stage to the tune of James Brown’s Get Up Offa That Thing, Kamasi Washington and his band The …
Festivals, Music, Reviews The Flaming Lips Review (Melbourne International Arts Festival) Arianna Lucente The Flaming Lips are tagged as a band to see before you die, and their Hamer Hall performance proved they …
Festivals, Reviews, Stage Wonders Review (Melbourne International Arts Festival) Alison Barclay In this age of pick’n’mix spirituality Scott Silven’s job description, “enchanting mentalism”, has a profound allure. Well, it seems profound, greater than …
Festivals, Theatre Anthem review (Melbourne International Arts Festival) Megan Whitfield In 1999 four playwrights and a composer came together to create a work examining the cultural makeup of 1990s Australia. …
