theatre
Performance reviews: The Coconuts – Brown on the Outside, White on the Inside and Breaking, Melbourne Fringe Festival
A punchy satirical musical comedy about being Brown in Australia and a compelling look into our relationship with the modern…
Prophecy comes full circle in Heirs of America
Dr Robert Reid’s sequel to Stephen Sewell’s post 9/11 classic comes at a time when so much of what the…
Performance reviews: Myth, Propaganda and Disaster and the Heirs of America, and Le Freak, Melbourne Fringe Festival
A successful, spine-tingling sequel and good hour of circus entertainment.
Theatre reviews: Love Letters and A friendship of life and death, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Ambitious shows aiming to bridge cultural understandings showed good intentions, but needed more development.
Theatre review: Every Brilliant Thing, New Benner Theatre
If you were to compile a list of everything that makes life worth living and truly brilliant, what would it…
Performance reviews: How to Shave and It’s Like a Circle, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Comedy that unpacks the highs and lows of transmasculine identity and theatre exploring the realms of queer love.
Theatre review: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, Belvoir St Theatre
Every element of this journey into the closing stages of Billie Holiday's life and career is entrancing from start to…
Performance reviews: The Hotline, Poet No.7 and Zaffé, Melbourne Fringe Festival
An on-demand pregnancy hotline, post-apocalyptic Melbourne and reimagining of a traditional Lebanese wedding at Melbourne Fringe 2023.
Patrick Gunasekera and Georgi Ivers: two artists and their journeys in crip time
Care can come in the form of time, patience, flexibility and community engagement in a world that still poses so…
Performance reviews: Best of the Fest and Me, My Cult & I, Sydney Fringe Festival
These performances remind us that independent art can be charming, but not always perfect.