Vanessa Francesca
Vanessa's Latest Articles
Theatre review: Yes
A performance tasked with the forensic asking of questions to unpick a messy world.
Theatre review: Yentl, Arts Centre Melbourne
An historical play about love and faith with modern resonance.
Theatre review: Admissions, MTC
A comedy of manners about race and higher education.
Theatre review: Solas, La Mama
A lesser known tale of James Joyce's daughter comes to the fore.
Theatre review: An Unforgivably Brief History of Australian Theatre with Dr Rob
An entertaining and edifying survey of Australian theatre throughout the ages.
Exhibition review: Vivienne Binns, MUMA
A survey of an iconoclastic artist who explored feminist ideology and advocated within community arts.
Book review: How we love, Clementine Ford
A collection of personal essays exploring the many tangents of love.
Exhibition Review: Language is a River, Monash University Museum of Art
An eclectic showing of artists from here and afar touch on a diversity of themes around language and identity.
Theatre review: As You Like It, MTC
A big cast, a lavish set, and a legacy of high Renaissance pastoral comedy animate MTC's lockdown return.
Book review: How to end a story, Helen Garner
An autofiction revealing the pearls and poignancy of everyday life.