Reviews
Music Review: The Masque of the Red Death (MONA FOMA)
When gothic horror meets gothic humour, it’s gotta be MONA FOMA.
Exhibition Review: Djillong Dumularra, Artspace (Sydney Festival)
Solid conceptual framing, but does it get lost in festival fever? Artspace focuses on First Nations conversations for Sydney Festival…
Dance Review: All Expenses Paid, Stompin (MONA FOMA)
Stompin's latest work was originally supposed to be presented in April 2020, and has benefitted from the extra-long development process.
Performance review: Bhoomi: Our Country (Sydney Festival)
A collective of musicians, dancers and writers weave ancient texts, myths and traditions into a recital exploring collective connection to…
Performance Review: Circa’s Humans 2.0, Carriageworks (Sydney Festival)
A riveting piece of contemporary circus that celebrates the group over the heroic individual and explores notions of trust and…
Exhibition Review: Wendy Sharpe: Ghosts, Mosman Art Gallery
Wendy Sharpe’s exhibition possesses an undeniable, animal vibrancy, giving breath to shared anxieties, frustrations and ennui.
Book Review: Wild by Kirsten Hannah
Kirsten Hannah’s story-telling is compelling.
Theatre Review: Shrek the Musical, QPAC
An unlikely hero, Shrek is a solitary ogre abandoned by his parents when he was seven but, underneath the gruff…
Exhibition Review: Space YZ, Campbelltown Arts Centre (Sydney Festival)
At a time when many of our art schools nationally face perilous cuts and closures, this exhibition curated by Daniel…
Book Review: Living with the Anthropocene
Edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell, these excellent essays speak more of loss than of hope.