Reviews
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.
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.