Reviews
Book review: Shirley, Ronnie Scott
An opaque book that navigates the liminal spaces between relationships.
Musical review: The Rocky Horror Show, Theatre Royal
Fifty years on, the cult musical still provokes joy in its celebration of transgressive freedom.
Theatre review: The Director, reUnion district, Launceston
The Director merges the realms of theatre and funeral directing, alongside the tragic and the comic.
Dance review: Body Body Commodity, Earls Arts Centre, Launceston
The lines between object, body and product blur as five female performers animate and interact with a mass of pastel…
Exhibition review: We Are Electric, UQ Art Museum
An exhibition about energy that promotes the collective over Darwin's theory of 'survival of the fittest'.
Music review: Mosaics: Contemporary sounds of Melbourne, Sidney Myer Music Bowl
A rich musical program in the second instalment from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's free Sidney Myer Bowl series.
Performance review: Kae Tempest, Perth Festival
Storytelling, song, poetry –Tempest defies categories.
Book review: Little Plum, Laura McPhee-Browne
Little Plum conveys the emotional essence of changeable states with nuanced insight.
Theatre review: Nosferatu, Malthouse
A modern telling of a classic tale plays around with a pastiche of Gothic tropes.
Theatre review: The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
Albee's classic play questioning the limits of social taboos gets a modern spin.