live performance
Performance reviews: Only Bones – Daniel Nodder, So..., Melbourne Fringe Festival
Two shows that explore some comedic freestyling using the body as a prop and a darkly absurd premise.
Circus review: Mr.  III三III (Mr Three), NICA, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Office workers trying to break away from corporate, capitalist routines.
Performance review: I Am (Not) This Body, Arts House, Melbourne Fringe Festival
A a cross-disciplinary exploration of the performer's relationship with her body in the world.
Theatre review: The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race, Bille Brown Theatre
Mashing through the glass ceiling, one potato race at a time.Â
Performance Reviews: HIGH PONY, LOOPS, Black Widow, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Four Melbourne Fringe Festival works show the range on offer, from comedy to circus, cabaret and street tours.
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.Â
Performance review: Tender, the Vault, Sydney Fringe Festival
This circus cabaret hybrid explores a disassembling of gender constructs in its fluid meld of bodies.
Theatre review: Shadow Boxing, Emerging Artists’ Sharehouse, Sydney Fringe
A raw and vivid production exploring the crossover between masculinity, sexuality, violence and identity.
Musical review: The Little Mermaid, Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, WA
Better than Broadway, this production was perfectly cast, exquisitely choreographed and aesthetically executed.
Music review: The Human Spirit, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
The human spirit is evoked through the human voice.