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Robert Reid wrote a new post 3 years, 1 month ago
Elbow Room’s joyous production of Enlightenment shows the strengths of Melbourne’s indie theatre scene, says Robert Reid
Elbow Room are a magnificent independent theatre company. Driven by fierce int […]
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Robert Reid wrote a new post 3 years, 1 month ago
An irresistible musical with a dark heart, Fangirls summons the chaos of adolescence, says Robert Reid
Fangirls – a multi-award-winning explosion of youthful exuberance in musical theatre form from Belvoir T […]
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Robert Reid wrote a new post 3 years, 1 month ago
Branch Nebula’s High Performance Packing Tape pushes cheap material – and Robert Reid’s patience – to the limits
Branch Nebula are a physical theatre and live art company renowned for their rethinking of urba […]
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Robert Reid wrote a new post 3 years, 1 month ago
In A German Life, Robyn Nevin gives a masterly performance of complicity as she recounts the life of Goebbels’ stenographer, says Robert Reid
In 2017 Brunhilde Pomsel, stenographer to the Nazi Minister of P […]
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Robert Reid wrote a new post 3 years, 1 month ago
In his production of Medea, Simon Stone brings his contemporary approach to classic Greek tragedy, and strips it of much of its power, says Robert Reid
It’s been at least a decade since I last saw a work by S […]
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Monique Grbec wrote a new post 3 years, 1 month ago
A dynamic look at the work of 10 emerging artists, Let’s Take Over 2021 at Darebin Arts leaves an enlivening sense of possibility, says Monique Grbec
Let’s Take Over 2021 is guided tour of 10 artworks cre […]
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Gully Thompson wrote a new post 3 years, 1 month ago
An experiment that doesn’t quite deliver, We’re Probably Really Really Happy Right Now at Theatre Works is nevertheless a deeply interesting work of queer performance, says Gully Thompson
Experimental the […]
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Gully Thompson wrote a new post 3 years, 2 months ago
Victorian Opera’s interpretation of the classic opera The Sleeping Beauty – written originally in the wake of the Spanish Flu pandemic – has fresh power in the age of Covid, says Gully Thompson
Sleeping Beaut […]
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Robert Reid wrote a new post 3 years, 2 months ago
Coming out of last year’s pandemic, two clowning shows – The Anniversary and Jofus and the Whale – show very different aspects of the art, says Robert Reid
It’s perhaps fitting that the return of live theat […]
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Gully Thompson wrote a new post 3 years, 2 months ago
The evocation of the child within animates the charm of La Mama’s Jofus and the Whale, writes youth critic Gully Thompson
It may be unnecessary to say, but I haven’t been to the theatre for a very long tim […]
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Ruby Hamad wrote a new post 3 years, 3 months ago
Produced, written and performed by people of colour, Sex, Drugs & Pork Rolls signals a new wave of Australian storytelling, says Ruby Hamad
Sex, Drugs & Pork Rolls, an unflinching new production that premiered […]
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Ruby Hamad changed their profile picture 3 years, 3 months ago
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Carissa Lee wrote a new post 3 years, 3 months ago
January 26 is always a hard day for First Nations peoples, says Carissa Lee. And as the ‘Cheesegate’ scandal at Queensland Theatre reveals, our theatre spaces are still unsafe
Content warning for First Nat […]
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Kimberley Twiner wrote a new post 3 years, 3 months ago
Theatre Works’ new Covid-safe seating frames the audience rather than the performance. And what’s with the coffee table? Kimberley Twiner reports
I am in a private audience of three, even though there are 25 […]
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I had similar thoughts about the Glasshouse set up. I think Theatre Works would have been better off with raked seating in the round and kept audience members distanced that way, rather than behind sheets of perspex which really impact connecting with the work. I didn’t mind the table, though. I liked having somewhere to put my glass of wine.
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Caitlin Doyle-Markwick wrote a new post 3 years, 3 months ago
Eternal, DARKFIELD RADIO’s foray into an immersive form of horror, is deliciously effective, says Caitlin Doyle-Markwick
“I want to put your mind at rest,” a voice whispers in your ear, before it goes on to pr […]
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Alison Croggon wrote a new post 3 years, 4 months ago
The Picture of Dorian Gray is spectacular, yet somehow never succumbs to the seductions of spectacle, says Alison Croggon
It’s commonly said that western society is in an age of narcissism, an age in which t […]
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BEN BROOKER wrote a new post 3 years, 4 months ago
Angus Cerini’s The Bleeding Tree reveals the brutalising and disfiguring reality of male violence, says Ben Brooker
“History is full of people who just didn’t,” writes Anne Boyer in her essay “No”, whi […]
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Robert Reid wrote a new post 3 years, 4 months ago
Michele Lee’s accomplished play Broth Bitch uses a podcast format to follow the life of a “vegan soup goddess”, says Robert Reid
Using the podcast format to tell a story that spans several decades, Broth Bitch […]
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Robert Reid wrote a new post 3 years, 4 months ago
‘People ignore it. Children play tag in spite of it. Teenagers dare each other to punch it.’ Robert Reid on Federation Square’s public artwork Sky Castle
Because it caught my eye – and because apparen […]
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