Reviews
Review: Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep, Arts Centre Melbourne/Asia TOPA (VIC)
Margaret Leng Tan cuts a figure of elegance, grace and ferocity in this blend of piano, storytelling and projection art.
Review: Cultural Renegades, Adelaide Fringe (SA)
An inclusive blend of hip-hop and spoken word that will get you moving.
Review: Agatha Gothe-Snape – The Outcome is Certain, Monash University Museum of Art (VIC)
Through text, colour and technology, Gothe-Snape’s retrospective considers how the canon is written, rewritten and unwritten.
Book review: Displaced by John Kinsella
Displaced: A Rural Life is an eclectic mixture of personal reminiscence, poetry, and advocacy dressed as opinion.
Exhibition Review: Between Worlds, Caboolture Hub Regional Gallery
Explorations of other worlds, imagined narratives, and cosmic genealogies, Apelt’s works are poignantly grounded in the concerns of now.
Review: The Blood of Kings, TheatreiNQ (QLD)
Powerful, riveting, and deserving of wider recognition.
Review: Are You Ready to Take the Law Into Your Own Hands, Arts House/Asia TOPA (VIC)
Asia TOPA presents a high-energy musical delight with extraordinary use of video.
Review: The Curtain, fortyfivedownstairs (VIC)
An empathetic production about a community almost never seen onstage.
Review: Last Words, Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre (VIC)
Joseph Sherman’s play is a brave, outstanding work that confronts the experience of Alzheimer’s.
Review: Tina Havelock Stevens – Thunderhead, PICA/Perth Festival (WA)
Havelock Stevens is one of the more exciting contemporary artists working today, with an astute pulse on the collective psyche.