Reviews

Exhibition review: Tania Ferrier: Pop Porn
A feminist survey that challenges perceptions of women's bodies as passive objects of desire.

Theatre review: Anna K
A modern day interrogation that riffs off Anna Karenina and explores how women are treated in the public arena.

Exhibition review: Embodied Knowledge, Queensland Contemporary Art
Exploring big ideas and tackling challenging questions, Embodied Knowledge is an insightful and relevant exhibition of contemporary art.

Book review: Nimblefoot, Robert Drewe
Fact and fiction blend in this intriguing reimagining of a young athlete's life after his early successes in pedestrianism and…

Theatre review: The Comedy of Errors
An uneven production mars one of Shakespeare's comedic plays.

Theatre review: Trust Me, It's the End of Our World After All
Dystopian theatre combines with reality TV in an explosive nuclear family drama.

Book review: After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz
A series of vignettes, featuring the reimagined lives of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late 19th and early…

Musical review: Hairspray
This new production reprises the original classic musical but the large venue dwarfs the spectacle.

Circus review: A Cabaret Somewhere Hot and Sticky
Circa Cairns presented a saucy mix of cabaret and acrobatics, capturing a spectrum of moments between bodies moving and connecting…

Exhibition review: Susan Jacobs, Buxton Contemporary
Part of Jacobs’ latest solo exhibition is to question whether it’s the world as we ‘know’ it or the world…