Ben Brooker

The shift to social isolation has been brutal. Ben Brooker wonders if embracing its strange absences might be a way through crisis

The operatic adaptation of Lars von Triers’ film Breaking the Waves succeeds in ways the film fails, says Ben Brooker

An intimate remembrance, Aleppo: A Portrait of Absence centres the human cost of war, says Ben Brooker

Independent theatre faces huge challenges, but artists are fighting back. Ben Brooker looks at RUMPUS, a co-operative venture in Adelaide about to enter its second year

Australian Dance Theatre’s North/South is a powerful evocation of climate dystopia and human resilience, says Ben Brooker

‘A first-rate revival ‘: Ben Brooker on Kate Champion’s A View from the Bridge at Adelaide’s State Theatre Company

At this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Larissa McGowan and Zoë Coombs Marr reawaken cabaret’s underground charge, says Ben Brooker

An apocalypse that ends with a whimper: Ben Brooker on Hofesh Shechter’s Grand Finale

‘Anything but tame’: Ben Brooker on Traverse Theatre’s Ulster American

‘Perhaps we, like Rianto, await our own metamorphoses’: Ben Brooker on Rianto’s Medium at Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art in Sydney