Reviews
Back in the Big Top, Flying Fruit Fly Circus (Albury NSW)
Forty years since the company first performed under a big top in Albury, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus return to…
Hi-Vis Futures, Canberra Museum and Gallery (ACT)
Alexander Boynes and Mandy Martin team up with sound designer Tristen Parr, to create a poignant multi-dimensional exhibition that taps…
Faust, Opera Australia, Arts Centre Melbourne (VIC)
Despite some heavy-handed religious imagery, this Opera Australia production is emotionally moving and a treat for the eyes and ears.
Hansard, National Theatre Live (screening nationally)
National Theatre Live brings us the first play from actor/playwright Simon Woods, directed by Simon Godwin. Hansard is an 80s…
Olivier Messiaen – Turangalila-Symphonie, Sydney Opera House (NSW)
A thrilling success hampered by an unsatisfactory acoustic.
Tell Me I’m Okay by David Bradford (Monash University Publishing)
A doctor’s personal memoir and a concise history of Australia’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Nils Frahm, QPAC (QLD)
Frahm creates a musical world in which any sound is possible: an explosion of choral singing, a robotic chittering, metallic…
New Breed, Carriageworks (NSW)
Four innovative young choreographers create new dance works on members of the Sydney Dance Company, resulting in riveting moments of…
The Great Divide by L.J.M. Owen (Echo Publishing)
A dark detective novel, set in a small Tasmanian town and featuring a complex plot littered with the occasional clue…
I Shot Mussolini, La Mama (VIC)
Based on research, but claiming artistic license, Alice Bishop’s new play explores the life of an eccentric and unusual would-be…