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A photo of a gray-blue night sky with drones forming the outlines of a fox head. Some audiences are taking out their phones to capture a photo in the rows in front.
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Event review: DroneArt Show, Caulfield Racecourse

Over-hyped drone show delivered barely-there spectacle.

Grey and white lino prints against a white wall.
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Exhibition Review: Freyja Fristad: Between Vessel and Void, PARKER Contemporary

Through her relief prints of vessels, emerging Wiradjuri artist Freyja Fristad breaks expectations and conventions.

A swirly globule-shape painting in shades of pink featuring a turtle. The artwork is part of the joint exhibition Masakatsu Sashie and Creature Creature: Auspicious Delicious, currently showing at Melbourne's Outré Gallery.
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Exhibition review: Masakatsu Sashie and Creature Creature, Outré Gallery

Two highly distinctive artists combine to create an exhibition to savour. 

A rear view of a person wearing a jumpsuit and a yellow beanie; they are looking at bright blue sculptural globules. A camera trained on them.
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Performance review: Night Night, Alexander Theatre, Monash Performing Arts Centres 

A profound tale, told with modern tech whizz-bangery that inspires, makes us think and touches the heart.

Two panels. On the left is a young woman with long wavy brown hair wearing a blue shirt over a white top. On the right is the cover of the book 'Stinkbug'. Against a blue background, a woman is lying face down. There are various bugs around her.
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Book review: Stinkbug, Sinéad Stubbins

Toxic workplace culture from a millennial's point of view.

A man in a grey suit and a woman in a red dress are sitting apart on a park bench.
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Theatre review: Heaven, Loading Dock Theatre, Qtopia Sydney

Kate Gaul directs the 2023 Irish Times' Best New Play at LGBTQIA+ museum and cultural centre, Qtopia Sydney. 

An elderly man sitting on a bed. He's wearing a grey robe. The bed too is grey as is the background. The actor is Max Gillies, performing a scene from 'Endgames', a trio of short modernist plays or play extracts at Melbourne venue fortyfivedownstairs.
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Theatre review: Endgames, fortyfivedownstairs

Three short works from modernist playwrights Chekhov, Beckett and Hibberd.

Three women wearing aprons stand in the middle of a kitchen making passata. There are boxes and trays of tomatoes around. A scene from Brink Productions/STCSA's 'Looking for Alibrandi'.
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Theatre review: Looking for Alibrandi, Adelaide Festival Centre

Melina Marchetta’s much loved book about migrant families in Australia is brought to life on stage.

Four women standing with their hands on their hips. A scene from 'FEMME PLAY [ungrateful slut]', now showing at The Butterfly Club.
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Theatre review: FEMME PLAY [ungrateful slut], The Butterfly Club

Judy Doubas’ latest play illuminates women’s roles in contemporary society.

A band on stage with a video screen behind them. There are two men standing on either side of the frame.
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Performance review: Vandemonian Lags, Melbourne Recital Centre

A reprisal of a musical production by Mick Thomas and friends about Tasmanian convicts and their stories.

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