Reviews
Review: Polly Borland, NGV
An interesting and at times confronting exhibition that showcases Borland’s work over the last decade.
Review: The Year of the Farmer by Rosalie Ham, Pan Macmillan
The reader looking for a good yarn in a rural setting will find it here.
Review: MSO – Beethoven 5, Hamer Hall
A famous performance of classical music’s most famous composition.
Review: Supernatural, White Rabbit Gallery
The best work in this exhibition draws from the country’s deeper heritage to create an eloquent throughline for the viewer.
Review: The Overcoat, Downstairs Theatre
Aspirations, egos, classes and tones all clash in The Overcoat – a title as innocuous as it is tragic.
Review: The Wharf Revue 2018: Déjà Revue, Sydney Theatre Company
The familiar awfulness of Australian politics is clearly a curse but the familiarity of the revue itself is a mixed…
Review: My Country by David Marr, Black Inc.
David Marr’s anthology, My Country, burns the names of those who fall under his crosshairs into their political headstones.
Review: Twelfth Night, Southbank Theatre
MTC’s take on Shakespeare’s tale of desire, love and disguise has a stellar cast but is worth going to for…
Review: Broadway Bound, New Theatre
Laughter and intensity are blended in the third part of Neil Simon's trilogy.
Review: Cook and the Pacific, National Library of Australia
Two exhibitions offer a layered narrative of Captain Cook’s Pacific encounters, one that has plenty of space for First Nations…