Reviews
Opera review: Innocence, Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival
A complex and multilayered production about collective guilt and trauma that deployed different languages and singing styles.
Book review: Gutsy Girls, Josie McSkimming
What was it like growing up as a sister of rock star poet Dorothy Porter?
Book review: Stellar Atmospheres, Alicia Sometimes
A poetry collection that blends lyricism with astronomical marvels.
Book review: The Knowing, Madeleine Ryan
A restless mind, a train ride and a day that questions everything.
Book review: Fire Exit, Morgan Talty
A tale about legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance.
Book review: The Mix-Up, Kylie Ladd
DNA doesn't decide who we love – but try telling that to the shell-shocked families in Kylie Ladd's exquisite heartbreaker…
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.