Catherine C Turner

Catherine C. Turner (she/they) is based in Djilang/Geelong and is an emerging writer, amateur musician, hobby photographer and lifelong arts consumer. She has an honours degree in creative writing from the University of Canberra and an MFA (Cultural Leadership) from NIDA, during which she wrote an original Australian feminist fairy tale.

Catherine C Turner's Latest Articles

A production of 'Edging.' Sammaneh Pourshafighi in acqua blue tracksuit is in forefront. Eden Falk is in the background. There is an image of the contents of someone's luggage on the screen behind them and part of an airport security equipment with a piece of luggage on it.
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Performance review: Edging, Arts House

A show highlighting the perverse reality of Australia’s border security processes.

Catherine C Turner

Dec 3, 2024
Matt Harvey, a red-headed man with a beard is wearing a blue shirt. He has pieces of white and orange paper stuck to his forehead and his shirt.
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Comedy review: Wage Against the Machine, The Mission to Seafarers Victoria

A one-person stand-up show reflecting on modern working life.

Catherine C Turner

Oct 23, 2024
Four women of 'Grrrl Power' in shades of green, blue and purple.
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Performance review: GRRRL Power, Trades Hall

A celebration of girl bands over the past 80 years.

Catherine C Turner

Oct 7, 2024
Two panels. On the left is a photo of a man with dark hair wearing a black t-shirt. On the right is the cover of a book with 'Oblivion' in white. There's a picture of a silhouette woman overlaid with views of a city.
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Book review: Oblivion, Patrick Holland

Holland's latest novel is the antithesis to a high-octane thriller.

Catherine C Turner

Jul 16, 2024
Against pink swirly drapes, a man and a woman are sitting on chairs. She on the left is dressed in an old fashioned dress and a wide brimmed hat and carrying a clipboard. He is wearing modern clothes: pants and a shirt. He has his arms wide, in the middle of talking.
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Theatre review: The Platypus, Theatre Works

An unflinching play based on real experiences that hits a little too close to home.

Catherine C Turner

Jun 27, 2024
Julia Slater-Allan and Sam Corr in ‘Cutting Onions’. Photo: Supplied. A woman sitting on the countertop based in purple light in a domestic sitting, gesturing to a man wearing a black hoodie.
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Theatre review: Cutting Onions, The MC Showroom

A visual extravaganza about modern relationships.

Catherine C Turner

Jun 21, 2024
James Joyce (Tref Gare) performing his spider dance in ‘ Samuel Beckett and the Rainbow Girl’. Photo: Jody Jane Stitt.
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Theatre review: Samuel Beckett and the Rainbow Girl, St Martin’s Theatre

A new play exploring Irish novelist James Joyce’s Paris years in the 1920s.

Catherine C Turner

Jun 21, 2024
Thunderhead. On the left is a book cover of clouds in a dark blue sky, with large pearls dotted across the cover, and the title running down the sides. On the right is a black and white headshot of a young white woman with long straight hair and a fringe.
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Book review: Thunderhead, Miranda Darling

Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, this novella explores coercive control. 

Catherine C Turner

May 8, 2024
WAY. On a dark stage an older worried looking white woman in a grey hoodie is using a phone in a telephone box. A chair is on the right of the picture.
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Theatre review: WAY, fortyfivedownstairs

A one-person show that skilfully covers a societal issue with empathy and compassion.

Catherine C Turner

May 6, 2024
A headshot of a smiling white man in a black shirt holding a trombone in front of him.
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Music review: American Stories: Bernstein, Gershwin and more, Hamer Hall

Trombonist Jonathon Ramsay dazzled in a highlight of this MSO performance, Joe Chindamo’s 'Ligeia'.

Catherine C Turner

Apr 16, 2024
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