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, Reviews, Stage Diaspora review (Melbourne International Arts Festival) Anders Furze Billing itself as a “science fiction revelation”, Diaspora is a mind-bending exploration of post-humanism that alternately dazzles and confounds. A …
Reviews, Stage The Wharf Revue 2019: Unr-dact-d Review (Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney) Jason Whittaker It felt an awful lot like the long goodbye, this latest edition of the beloved annual Sydney Theatre Company chuckle-fest. …
Stage 30 years of celebrating the Bard Down Under Anders Furze Bell Shakespeare marks its 30th birthday in 2020. Anders Furze spoke to artistic director Peter Evans about the company’s anniversary …
Stage Bruce Gladwin on The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes Daily Review Geelong-based company Back to Back Theatre returns to the Melbourne Festival with its new work “inspired by mistakes, misreadings, misleadings …
Festivals, Reviews, Stage Jack Gow: Just A Small Town Boy Review (Melbourne Fringe) Shane Murphy Jack Gow is, as he avows, both anxious and a tad vain. He worrries. A lot. Should he announce himself? …
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 …
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 …
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 …
News & Commentary, Stage, Theatre Australia Council’s demotion of plays and playwrights Joanna Murray-Smith What is it about our funding bodies and media that they ignore the role of theatre and playwrights? Every other culturally expressive …
