Reviews
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.
Performance review: Elvis: A Musical Revolution, Athenaeum Theatre
With two rock and pop musicals opening in Melbourne on the same night, a show about the King manages to…
Comedy review: Tight Mums, Loose Units, Trades Hall, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Hysterical tongue-in-cheek Tight Mums dishing the dirt on married life and divorce.
Book review: Fake Heroes, Otto English
Fake Heroes features 10 notable people from history's pages, and reveals what they were really like.
Performance review: Tender, the Vault, Sydney Fringe Festival
This circus cabaret hybrid explores a disassembling of gender constructs in its fluid meld of bodies.
Exhibition review: Liam Young: Planetary Redesign, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia
As climate chaos ignites more panic, drastic measures are presented to completely reimagine the planet’s future.
Book review: Eventually Everything Connects, Sarah Firth
This debut graphic novel is a series of visual essays that explore interconnectedness.
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.
Book review: Lola in the Mirror, Trent Dalton
Trent Dalton's latest novel looks in the mirror and finds violence and despair, but also hope and art.
Theatre review: Shadow Boxing, Emerging Artists’ Sharehouse, Sydney Fringe
A raw and vivid production exploring the crossover between masculinity, sexuality, violence and identity.