Reviews
Review: The Doctor, Adelaide Festival (SA)
Exquisitely written and performed, this drama about identity, gender, faith and science is mesmerising and utterly of the moment.
Review: Going Down, The Butterfly Club (VIC)
Modern-day social media spiritual guru The Truru returns in another satire.
Review: Japanese Modernism, NGV International (VIC)
Curated as a kind of ‘cabinet of curiosity’, the NGV’s exhibition celebrates a lively and energetic period of Japanese history.
Review: The Winter’s Tale, La Mama Theatre/Asia TOPA (VIC)
An enjoyable version of Shakespeare’s plot-heavy potboiler moves the action to 1920s Hong Kong and 1970s Australia.
Review: Sva Kranti, Footscray Community Arts Centre/Asia TOPA (VIC)
Mallika Sarabhai’s mixed-media performance is a call to action against injustice everywhere.
Review: Selby and Friends – A Tale of Two Cities, Elder Hall (SA)
Selby & Friends takes the audience to Vienna and St Petersburg in a superb season opener.
Review: Romeo Castellucci’s Requiem, Adelaide Festival (SA)
Rich in symbolism, doom and hope, you live through the cycle of life and death at the hands of Romeo…
Book review: Sky Swimming by Sylvia Martin
Biographer Sylvia Martin finally turns her pen on herself.
Book review: Melting Moments by Anna Goldsworthy
Goldsworthy has captured the mores of the postwar period to perfection.
Review: A O Lang Pho, Arts Centre Melbourne/Asia TOPA (VIC)
Vietnamese Bamboo Circus’s stunning show embeds impressive physical skills in a vivid, cohesive narrative.