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What do you do with bad reviews? Celebrate them!

Instead of ignoring their worst reviews on TripAdvisor, Mona plastered them on billboards in order to generate further interest in…

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Review: Yoga Clowns of the Apocalypse, Salamanca Arts Centre (TAS)

Highly visual and physically engaging, this absurd clown show quickly became a buzz around Hobart.

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MONA’s Eat the Problem is possibly well-meaning but ultimately exquisitely elitist

An exhibition that proposes we kill and consume invasive species fails to challenge the growing disparity between rich and poor.

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Review: Nothing, Salamanca Arts Centre

A dark and thought provoking work of theatre, skilfully brought to life by a talented team of creatives and performers.

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Review: The Mares, Tasmanian Theatre Company

A new play by Kate Mulvany is impeccably realised in this outstanding Ten Days on the Island and Tasmanian Theatre…

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What happens when a small community loses its arts coverage?

The decision by Hobart's The Mercury to axe all theatre, dance, and music criticism in its pages has alarmed the…

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Review: The Campaign, Salamanca Arts Centre

A brilliant piece of intimate and simultaneously joyful and gut wrenching theatre.

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Our cross to bear: Hobart's galleries vs the Mona effect

How can a small gallery compete with an institution as large as Mona? Surprisingly easily, it turns out.

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Review: Zeb: A Gender Odyssey, Tasmania Performs

A gutsy story performed by an emerging artist who knows all too well how hard it is growing up non-binary…

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Review: Blue Cow Theatre's Twelve Times He Spoke

Vital and engaging theatre that gets to the heart of the pressure cooker of male violence and the toxicity of…

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