Reviews
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…
Book review: Red, Felicity McLean
A reimagining of the Ned Kelly myth through a contemporary female protagonist.
Concert review: Tragedy to Triumph
The music may have been full of tragedy but the orchestra was triumphant!
Cabaret review: Blanc de Blanc Encore
The Spiegeltent hosts a night of ribald humour, aerial stunts, extravagant costumes and a pillow fight.