Reviews, Stage, Theatre Mortido: Colin Friels and the 'war on drugs' (Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide) Ben Brooker “Existence,” hard-boiled cop Grubbe (Colin Friels) tells Jimmy (Tom Conroy), a drug addict and pusher who Grubbe is courting to …
Live, Music, Reviews Laura Marling (Melbourne Festival) Jacob Robinson British songstress Laura Marling has achieved an incredible amount at the age of 25. Yet there seems to be 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.
Reviews, Stage, Theatre A Rabbit for Kim Jong-Il review (Griffin Theatre, Sydney) Ben Neutze Kit Brookman’s new play A Rabbit from Kim Jong-Il was inspired by a true story which proves the overused adage — “truth …
Music, Reviews, Stage Patti Smith's Horses (Melbourne Festival) Jacob Robinson It’s 40 years since Patti Smith’s seminal Horses was unleashed upon the world. Although only a modest commercial success upon release, …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Desdemona review (Melbourne Festival) Owen Richardson In Act IV, Scene III of Othello, Desdemona is sitting with her friend Emilia. She knows she is in danger; …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre 1984 theatre review (Melbourne Festival) Owen Richardson One challenge for any adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four is how to keep it fresh. The book is so proverbial, so …
Music, Recorded, Reviews Deerhunter: Fading Frontier album review Jacob Robinson Over the past 10 years Deerhunter have slowly but surely built up a reputation as one of American alternative rock’s …
