Reviews
Review: Natural Order, Milk Crate Theatre (NSW)
Devised by people experiencing homelessness, this immersive experience reveals the Orwellian dimensions of social services.
Review: Fifty Words, Alex Theatre (VIC)
Lab Theatre’s two-hander explores strained and hollowed-out domesticity.
Book Review: The Kowloon Kid by Phil Brown
Brown’s memoir of his early years remembers a Hong Kong now forever changed.
Review: Britten’s Peter Grimes in Concert, Sydney Symphony Orchestra (NSW)
SSO’s concert performance of Britten’s opera brought out the best of the best – so where was the audience?
Book Review: The Professor and the Parson by Adam Sisman
A detailed biography of a masterful conman and the historian who pursued him.
Book Review: Shoot Through by JM Green
The third instalment in the Stella Hardy series is another solid example of Australian crime writing.
Book Review: Plots and Prayers by Niki Savva
Journalist Niki Savva reveals the inside story on how Malcolm Turnbull was deposed as prime minister.
Review: Handel’s Anthems & Fireworks, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (NSW/QLD/VIC)
A right royal display of piquant La Réjouissance.
Review: We Three, Gasworks Arts Park (VIC)
Hayley Lawson-Smith’s retelling of the Nativity is meandering and frustrating.
Review: Make Me a Houri, La Mama Courthouse (VIC)
A poetic and hilarious two-hander that challenges reductive ideas of femininity and religion.