Reviews
1984
An early reference to ‘watching refugees drown’ pulls this eerily relevant performance even closer to home.
Confessions of a Control Freak
Belinda Raisin's cabaret character study successfully explores the inability to reconcile expectation with reality.
Romantic Masterpieces: Brahms & Elgar
With a graciousness of tone and rapid engagement, cellist Truls Mork gave a charismatic and connecting performance.
Offspring Ensemble: Plekto
Each piece of music was weird and wonderful in its own way – not one of them conventional, or made…
Closed for Maintenance
This is a work with three or four moments of total brilliance, a few problems and a large amount of…
The Good Person of Szechuan
This hybrid Chinese-Australian co-production of Brecht’s fable exposes the endless traversing between cultures and imaginings.
Materiality #3: Precious
The journal engages literal and direct encounters with the word precious and more nuanced portrayals of what the concept entails.
Slopes: No, You're Product
The word curator means ‘to take care’, however in this show the artists' ideas have been overshadowed by the curator's.
Confessions of a Pyromaniac
Strong depiction of the conflicts and constants of family interactions.
The Effect
Lucy Prebble's latest play examines the commercial exploitation underpinning the (first) world's addiction to antidepressants.