Reviews

Theatre review: Blood Will Have Blood, TheatreiNQ, Townsville
Shakespeare adapted with flair and majesty.

Dance review: Weredingo, Brisbane Festival
Creationist stories through shapeshifting dance and poetry.

Theatre review: Dirty Laundry, Brisbane Festival
The Brief Boys air their dirty laundry.

Book review: Muddy People, Sara El Sayed, Black Inc
An intricate memoir that traverses the muddy divides between child and adult, tradition and change, self and other and identity…

Theatre review: Ishmael, Brisbane Festival
Despite clever technological effects, a reimagining of Moby Dick is a bold experiment that fails to ignite.

Exhibition review: Pragma: Perils and Passions, Lost Eden Creative, WA
A showcase of love in all its permutations.

Book review: Lakesedge, Lyndall Clipstone, Pan Macmillan
A haunting YA Gothic fantasy about a girl and a monster

Book review: Travelling Companions, Antoni Jach, Transit Lounge Publishing
A peripatetic journey through Europe with diverting storytellers along the way.

Dance review: IN HOUSE, Co3 Contemporary Dance, State Theatre Centre of WA
Five short dance works offer a diversity of form and style.

Theatre review: Boy Swallows Universe, Playhouse theatre, QPAC, Brisbane
Trent Dalton's bestseller hits the stage in a meticulous adaptation that explores its light and dark themes.