Reviews

Performance review: New Reality, Immigration Museum
Multidisciplinary performance that paid homage to Chinese roots while exploring themes of identity, belonging and self-worth.

Festival review: The Unconformity, Queenstown
The Unconformity is a festival that interacts with the Queenstown landscape in unexpected ways.

Dance review: CEASE/FIRE, C Shed, Fremantle, WA
A dance work which sharpens our eyes to difficult themes of war and its consequences, choreographed by May Greenberg and…

Exhibition review: Kandinsky, AGNSW
No Kandinsky painting is held in an Australia public collection, so this largest ever exhibition of the iconic modernist is…

Performance review: Nighttime Righttime, Carriageworks
Presented as part of Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival, ‘Nighttime Righttime’ was a syncopated medley of the wonderfully odd.

Theatre review: In the Club, Theatre Works
Patricia Cornelius' play tackles consent, coercion and sexual violence in the AFL.

Theatre review: Defoe's Plague, La Mama
A befuddled but promising exploration of the life and work of Daniel Defoe.

Book review: Everyone on this Train is a Suspect, Benjamin Stevenson
An intriguing mystery yarn where a trainload of mystery writers are themselves the detectives.

Theatre review: Everything but the Kitchen Sink Fest, The Flight Path Theatre
Four producers, four shows and the questionable relevance of the fourth wall in this inner west theatre festival.Â

Book review: The Naturalist of Amsterdam, Melissa Ashley
Ashley's latest book is an historical fiction set at the turn of the 18th century and featuring unsung women who…