Reviews, Stage The Beauty Queen of Leenane review (Sydney Theatre Company) Jason Whittaker Before Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and all that Oscars attention, before In Bruges, his film directorial debut, before plays …
Reviews, Stage First Love is the Revolution review (Griffin Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker Have any two lovers been as star-cross’d as Basti and Rdeca? Fourteen-year-old Basti (short for Sebastian) has a broken heart …
Dance, Reviews, Stage Sylvia review (The Australian Ballet) Martin Portus Many have praised Leo Delibes’ dramatic score for Sylvia – Tchaikovsky loved it – but no choreographer has quite got …
Dance, Reviews, Stage Bonachela/Obarzanek review (Sydney Dance Company) Martin Portus Thanks to all those pushy, once brazen young baby-boomers, many Australian arts organisations are now marking their 40th or even …
Stage The Split review (Rumpus Theatre, Adelaide) Murray Bramwell “Jules and Tom are on an old fishing boat. They’ve borrowed it. It’s only pretty small. The anchor is down, …
Festivals, Stage The Village review (OzAsia Fest, Adelaide) Murray Bramwell The 2019 OzAsia program has been notable for its significant returns. Artistic director Joseph Mitchell has said that while he …
Festivals, Stage Cuckoo review (OzAsia Fest, Adelaide) Murray Bramwell Cuckoo is a meditation on South Korean society over the 22 years since the Asian Financial Crisis, told in part …
Music, Stage Kukangendai review (Melbourne International Arts Festival) Arianna Lucente Japanese avant-garde rock trio Kukangendai make their Australian debut with Organ, an hour-long musical piece that transports audiences and subverts …
Festivals, Reviews, Stage Light review (OzAsia Festival, Adelaide) Murray Bramwell “The Theft of Penang, Birth of Adelaide and the Rise of the British Empire.” This is the revisionist history of …
Festivals, Stage Technocircus review (OzAsia Festival, Adelaide) Murray Bramwell I am not really sure what video-mapping technology is, but the smart and snappy Japanese mime-and-image group, SIRO-A certainly make …
