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Othello review: a pared-back production by Melbourne Shakespeare Company
With its themes of domestic violence, Othello has continuing relevance.
Free exhibitions in Victoria August 2025
Your guide to free exhibitions in Victoria, including major solos featuring Darren Sylvester, Liam Fleming, Mike Parr, Katrin Koenning and…
Smokescreen review: smoke and mirrors theatre show in Melbourne
Smokescreen shows how tactics developed by the tobacco industry were used by the fossil fuel industry to delay action on…
Theatre review: Happy-Go-Wrong, fortyfivedownstairs
This exploration of chronic illness fuelled existential angst doesn’t make the leap from fringe festival circuit to the fortyfivedownstairs stage.
Theatre review: Endgames, fortyfivedownstairs
Three short works from modernist playwrights Chekhov, Beckett and Hibberd.
Theatre review: Boys on the Verge of Tears, fortyfivedownstairs
An exploration of identity and masculinity from youth to adulthood.
Theatre review: POTUS, fortyfivedownstairs
A satirical farce with a conceit and style very similar to 'Veep' that can’t quite compare.
Theatre reviews: Thirty-Six and Medium, midsumma festival
Two very different shows at midsumma festival.
Theatre review: ILARUN: The Cutting Comb, fortyfivedownstairs
A story of decolonised power based on a 18th century Jamaican matriarch.
Theatre review: Rhinoceros, fortyfivedownstairs
The second in the beast trilogy, 'Rhinoceros' is a rampaging success.