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 …
Reviews, Stage Fangirls review (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker That piercing shrill you’ve heard wafting from Surry Hills this week? That would be the singular sound of teenage girls …
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. …