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![Close up of four women sitting in a car at night; they are lit from inside the car.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Trilogia-Cadela-Forca-Capitulo-I-BLACKYVA-FERNANDA-LIBMAN-JOANA-FERRAZ-LARISSA-B.-MARINA-M.-Christophe-Raynaud1.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: The Cadela Força Trilogy – Chapter 1, RISING Festival, Malthouse
A graphic and disturbing look at violence against women.
![A teenage girl with her brunette hair in a ponytail is wearing school uniform and looking over to the side.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/D852713CChrissy-Maguire_20241.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Punk Rock, Clubhouse Theatre, Townsville
Young, emerging actors shine brightly in this school drama.
![Right side profile of teenage girl who's reading a script. She's facing a camera. A projected image of a man and a woman is presented on a screen above on the left hand side.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/POV_S2-23.jpeg?w=310)
Performance review: POV, Belvoir St Theatre
Two child actors and 36 unrehearsed adult actors participate in an engrossing mash-up of stage and screen techniques.Â
![A man in a white shirt, black pants and tie is standing in front of an office set. He's got on hand on his hip and another pointing at the viewer.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/The-Gospel-According-to-Paul_Sydney-Opera-House_credit_Daniel-Boud_048.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: The Gospel According to Paul, Sydney Opera House
Jonathan Biggins returns for another season in office as our former Prime Minister.
![A blonde woman in a strapless evening gown is standing next to a bathtub, which is on a raised platform.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Virginia-Gay-hosting-The-2024-Vareity-Gala-Photo-by-Claudio-Raschella-2-e1718074518546.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: The 2024 Variety Gala, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Festival Theatre
A charcuterie plate of cabaret excellence!
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Theatre review: Blackout Songs, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre
A two-handler about alcoholism and memory.
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Performance review: Romeo & Juliet Suite, Sydney Opera House
Depending on which night you attend, the roles of Rome and Juliet will be played by three separate couples.
![RISING. Against a burning sun going down two figures that look like prehistoric monsters or dinosaurs face off. But are they just performers in flowing costumes?](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Anito_Arts-House_photo-Sarah-Walker-727411.jpg?w=310)
Performance review: ANITO, RISING Festival, Arts House
Costume, puppetry, drag, dance and experimental electronic music combine to interrogate colonial wrongs.
![RISING: A group of three First Peoples and a Caucasian man performing in a rock band with an arch of stage lights behind them. Two are playing guitars, the lead singer is standing on a packing case and one is waving drum sticks.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/BNNB-Rising-Low-Res-38-e1717390017165.jpg?w=310)
Performance reviews: RISING Festival, first weekend
RISING Festival is now off and running. Here is ArtsHub's round-up of the performing arts offerings on the first weekend.
![Ulster American. Three actors on a stage set of a loft type apartment. A woman in a short sleeved lilac jumper sits downstage. Behind her centre stage is a bearded man all in black with a baseball cap backwards and an Oscar in his outstretched hand; he is shouting. A third balding man with glasses stands on the right behind a tan leather couch clasping his hands and watching the man in the centre.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ulster-American-0031.jpg?w=310)
Theatre review: Ulster American, Ensemble Theatre
Feminism, #MeToo, toxic masculinity, the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ and the theatre itself are dissected in this provocative work.