Vanessa Francesca

Vanessa Francesca is a writer who has worked in independent theatre. Her work has appeared in The Age, The Australian and Meanjin

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Poetry. Image is a sheet of paper with some lines written across it and a fountain pen with the lid off.
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Is poetry really 'the tyrannical discipline'?

This is how Sylvia Plath described the art form, but three contemporary poets have very different views.

Vanessa Francesca

May 3, 2024
Image is a conceptual artwork that is a frame of 64 rectangular shapes laid out in eight rows with a black bold framework around and between them. Characters.
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Exhibition review: Characters, Hayden's Gallery

Six contemporary women artists using conceptual art to explore change, process and the philosophy of art.

Vanessa Francesca

May 2, 2024
Image is a dark gallery with a shiny wooden floor and a white box seat. On the walls are two 3D pieces, one a cupboard like work and the other comprising abstract faces.
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Exhibition review: Odalala, nireekshane and Uyirvu, Arts House

Australian and international artists examine histories of caste, migration, gender and sexuality.

Vanessa Francesca

May 1, 2024
Andy Balloch. Image is a head and shoulders shot of a quizzical/concerned looking white man with bleached blond hair, a green jacket over a white open necked shirt and a plastic skeletal hand on his shoulder.
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Comedy Review: Andy Balloch, The Motley Bauhaus, MICF 2024

Welcome to the madcap games in Andy Balloch's lounge room. Who will he be next?

Vanessa Francesca

Apr 23, 2024
The PR.omised Land. Exhibition photo shows a blue painted woman with words written across her body lying on a golden egg-like sculpture.
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Exhibition review: The PR.omised Land, Museo Italiano

Photographic exhibition that displays the Italian migration experience.

Vanessa Francesca

Apr 3, 2024
Surfacing. Image is a neon artwork placed on a gallery floor that says My... Sight with the middle word Soul not lit up.
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Exhibition review: Surfacing, Trocadero Projects

New and experimental photographic work and related writing from emerging artists.

Vanessa Francesca

Mar 21, 2024
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Theatre review: Yentl, Malthouse Theatre

'Yentl' returns after two years in a new venue and with a new lead performer.

Vanessa Francesca

Mar 6, 2024
Close up of artwork of a white female chest, with eyes in the place of nipples.
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Exhibition review: From The Other Side, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

Local and international works focus on the fear of the monstrous-feminine.

Vanessa Francesca

Feb 8, 2024
A Very Jewish Christmas Carol. Image is two people standing on stage in a spotlight in front of a red curtain. One is dressed as a present, the other as a Christmas tree.
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Theatre review: A Very Jewish Christmas Carol, Southbank Theatre

A repurposing of Dickens' classic tale with a gingerbread golem and a miser called Scroogavitz.

Vanessa Francesca

Nov 23, 2023
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Image is a proscenium arch stage set of a dingy living room, with a woman in a red shirt draped across the couch and a man in a grey cardigan sitting on the edge leaning toward her.
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Theatre review: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre

Edward Albee's excoriating exploration of an embattled marriage returns for a modern spin.

Vanessa Francesca

Nov 20, 2023
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