Reviews, Stage John Howard was REALLY Bad review Tobias Manderson-Galvin What if your university lecturer was exactly the propagandist the right-wing media claimed they were? What if a young Bill …
Music, Reviews Amyl and the Sniffers review (Lansdowne Hotel, Sydney) Benjamin Woods When I first heard about Amyl & the Sniffers I was sceptical. The hype was that they were a great …
Festivals, Reviews, Stage The Power of the Holy Spirit review (Melbourne Fringe) Tobias Manderson-Galvin Harriet Gillies’ newest work explores Marxist neo-feminism, post-humanism and a grim nihilism with subversive, and sometimes unsettling, results. The Power …
Music, Reviews Tool – Fear Inoculum album review Benjamin Woods It’s been 13 years since Tool’s last album. I can imagine that there are rabid Tool fans out there who …
Exhibitions, Reviews, Visual Arts Outback grotesquerie and Liss Fenwick’s ‘Grim Purpose’ Koulla Roussos In Grim Purpose, Liss Fenwick’s exhibition of photographic works recently shown at Darwin Visual Arts (DVA), the artist works with images that …
Opera, Reviews, Stage Ghost Sonata review (Opera Australia scenery workshop, Sydney) Jason Whittaker We’re not in the Opera House anymore, Toto. It’s cold. The seats are uncomfortably plastic. And the opera is unlike …
Reviews, Visual Arts Bauhaus Now! (Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne) and Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond (MUP) reviewed Darren Jorgensen A new exhibition in Melbourne and a book on the Bauhaus – the German art school of the 1920s – offer a new history …
Musicals, Reviews, Stage Caroline, or Change theatre review (Hayes Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker As the lonely, sex-starved, pill-popping housewife Harper Pitt said to the mannequin in the Mormon Center diorama: “How do people …
Musicals, Reviews, Stage Chicago review (Capitol Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker There’s a great scene in the often great Fosse/Verdon, the recent TV bio-series, if we’re to believe it, showing a …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre The Bacchae theatre review (La Mama, Melbourne) Tobias Manderson-Galvin Rob Reid’s production of The Bacchae (a co-production of Melbourne’s La Mama, and Monash University Student Theatre) at the La …
