Reviews
Theatre Review: The Cherry Orchard (Perth Festival)
The BBQ is lit, the vodka is poured... it's time to party like it's 1988… or is it?
Exhibition Review: Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery London
Australia’s first major international exhibition since border closures began, Botticelli to Van Gogh is impressive.
Theatre Review: Whistleblower, The Last Great Hunt (Perth Festival)
Fast-paced, high-stakes interactive improvisation, featuring audience volunteers, as slickly delivered live-stream directed work.
Exhibition Review: Adelaide//International, Samstag Museum of Art
Speculations on the future, and our complicity in it, are at the heart of these four exhibitions featured at Adelaide…
Theatre Review: The Sum of Us (Perth Festival)
Yirra Yaakin’s The Sum of Us is a tale of a strong family bond, ageing, queerness and the dance we…
Opera Review: Bluebeard’s Castle, Opera Australia
This is a power-packed psychological opera squeezed into just 60-minutes, and manages to strike a contemporary #MeToo chord and questions…
Book Review: Monsters – a reckoning by Alison Croggon
Croggon’s background as a poet is tangible, and her language in Monsters is flavoursome.
Theatre review: The Boy Who Talked to Dogs, Slingsby/STCSA (Adelaide Festival)
The real-life story of dog-whisperer Martin McKenna, whose life took him from misery in Limerick to a new life in…
Theatre Review: House (Perth Festival)
A story of such depth and nuance that there is enough to tantalise both children and adults alike.
Theatre Review: STC's Playing Beatie Bow
A joyful production to appeal delightfully to young and old.