Performing Arts
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.
Opportunities and awards
Major $300,000 commission calling for artists, HOTA ArtKeeper returns, plus winners of Patrick White Literary Award and Artspace studio artists…
Performance reviews: Access, Dougie Baldwin and Aza: stories of grief in diaspora, Melbourne Fringe Festival
An hour of anarchic clowning, emotional experimentation and diasporic mourning at Melbourne Fringe 2023.
Cultural collaboration between remote Kimberley art centres
Through collaboration and shared resources, remote Kimberley art centres strengthen cultural practice and promote a unique identity.
The Moving State of Circus: opening keynote from the Australian Circus Summit
The keynote speech by Darcy Grant, Artistic Director of Gravity and Other Myths, presented last week at NICA’s Australian Circus…
Music review: Angel Strings and K Mak, Scienceworks Planetarium, Melbourne Fringe Festival
A successful marriage of cosmic imagery and ethereal music.
Performance reviews: Exhumed: The ‘Best’ of Bradley Storer, Leather Lungs: Happy Ending, Baba, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Three impressive shows at Melbourne Fringe Festival: two cabarets that touched on big and personal themes and a moving tribute…
Performance review: All the Fraudulent Horse Girls, Trades Hall, Melbourne Fringe Festival
A queer coming-of-age production that involved a fever dream of horses and the novelist work of Cormac McCarthy.
Theatre review: Frankenstein, Playhouse Theatre, QPAC
Shake & Stir Theatre Co's adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic tale mixes traditional and modern theatre together to create a…