Reviews
Book review: The Truth about my Daughter, Jo Skinner
An exploration into the power dynamics and emotional upheavals of one family.
Book review: Annihilation, Michel Houellebecq
A dour look at the state of the contemporary world.
Book review: The Belburd, Nardi Simpson
A lyrical, multi-stranded novel about connection to Country.
Opera review: Lucia di Lammermoor, Her Majesty’s Theatre
Much darkness and just a little light in State Opera South Australia’s revival of Donizetti's grim tragedy.
Exhibition review: Nusra Latif Qureshi: Birds in Far Pavilions, Art Gallery of New South Wales
An exhibition that references and utilises past practices to reflect on current preoccupations.
Theatre review: Waiting for Godot, The Street Theatre
A powerful take on a 20th century classic of the Western theatre canon.
Musical review: My Brilliant Career, Sumner Theatre
It's an all-singing, all-keyboard playing and totally exuberant Sybylla Melvyn.
Theatre review: The Inheritance, Seymour Centre
This marathon production, based on the seminal E M Forster novel 'Howards End', makes huge demands of the audience –…
Exhibition review: Archie Moore, Dwelling (Adelaide Issue), Samstag Museum of Art
A subtle exhibition that uses memory to question our own perceptions of home, and the erasure of others.
Book review: Australian Gospel: A Family Saga, Lech Blaine
Two Australian families go to war over their biological/foster offspring.