Reviews
Performance review: Sim Chi Yin, One Day We’ll Understand, Footscray Community Arts, Asia TOPA
A multimedia performance exploring memory and inheritance.
Book review: Fully Sikh: hot chips and turmeric stains, Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa
Poetry and prose speak to the experience of growing up Indian in Western Australia.
Book review: The Crimson Road, A G Slatter
A fantasy vampire setting, but its potholes detract from the world-building.
Dance review: Caída del Cielo (Fallen from Heaven), Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide Festival
Flamenco dance and theatre about the agony and ecstasy of womanhood.
Exhibition review: Karl Shoobridge: Etymologies, ArtSpace Teneriffe
As a cyclone bears down on Meanjin/Brisbane, ArtSpace Teneriffe has opened with an exhibition to brighten the dampest of spirits.
Book review: Outrageous Fortunes, Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex
An unearthing of the life and times of Mary Fortune, who wrote the first book of detective stories published in…
Book review: First Year, Kristina Ross
Award-winning debut fiction about a young actress navigating her way around an education in the performing arts.
Dance review: U>N>I>T>E>D, Asia TOPA 2025
A futuristic epic that turned philosophical.
Exhibition review: Middle of a Moment: Aki Onda, The Substation, Asia TOPA
A multisensory exhibition exploring sound and memory.
Book review: Taking Apart The Bird Trap, Amanda Anastasi
This poetry collection explores life, loss and death in the western suburbs of Melbourne.