Reviews

Dance review: Body Corp, Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre
The body and technology intertwine in this masterful dance work created and co-performed by Sarah Aiken.

Musical review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Hayes Theatre
A melodramatic musical farce set in Madrid in the late 1980s.

Book review: The Victoria Principle, Michael Farrell
A captivating mix of stories, opinions, reminiscences, jokes and unexpected delights – this brilliant collection defies categorisation.

Book review: The Players, Deborah Pike
Youthful connections span time and continents.

Exhibition review: 100 Lights, Melbourne Design Week, Meat Market Stables
Enter a world (well three galleries-worth) of illumination in this dedicated exhibition of light.

Dance review: Blue, Playhouse Theatre, QPAC
The Australasian Dance Collective celebrates its 40th anniversary with 'Blue', a powerful and beautifully realised trilogy.

Theatre review: The Black Woman of Gippsland, Southbank Theatre, The Sumner
A modern mystery tale about Indigenous identity.

Immersive review: The Door in Question, 47 Paisley St, Footscray
A heady mix of VR, interactive AI and immersive theatre take over a series of empty rooms and suburban streets…

Theatre review: Happy Days, Wharf 1 Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company
Lead actor and co-director Pamela Rabe shines in this staging of a classic Samuel Beckett play.

Book review: Always Home, Always Homesick, Hannah Kent
Hannah Kent's first non-fiction book retreads the grounds of her Iceland-set bestseller, 'Burial Rites.'