Reviews
To Where Nothing Ever Shared
This was an exercise that went beyond music. It may have gone too far beyond to entertain but it was…
Jack Mannix: Precious Metals
An exploration of the joyous, wasteful abandon of twenty-something partying, sex and drugs.
Uncle Jack
Complex characters present aspects of the ANZAC spirit with honesty, humour and hard yakka.
Zena Ladner
The script is heavy with intricate ideas, but Zena Ladner refuses to offer a bold, clear take on the issues…
Works: Under 30 Seconds and Things That Fit Together
Nathan Gray creates a fragile ecosystem that yet needs to enable spectators to create their own narratives and connections.
Alexis Wright: The Swan Book
Wright knowingly slips between different registers in a pointed series of allegations that nobody can deny or ignore.
Coppélia
Choreographer Greg Horsman has whisked Coppélia away from late eighteenth-century Galicia to Harndorf, South Australia.
Reality in Flames: modern Australian art and the Second World War
Greater academic rigour is needed if the War Memorial is to be taken seriously as an art institution.
Clare Wright: The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
Wright dispels the myth of the Victorian goldfields as an exclusively masculine domain through the re-telling of the gold rush.
Hannah Kent: Burial Rites
Kent succeeds in offering up a fascinating, rich character and leaves it up to the reader to decide how to…