Playwright Emilie Collyer’s Contest seems to be on the defensive rather than the offensive throughout its seventy five minute run. Set entirely on a netball court, Contest appears to be about ...

If you’re a younger Melbournian, chances are you don’t know at all. Awareness and connection to an event that occurred over half a century ago naturally fades, but it does seem utterly extraordinary ...

T here is no doubt that the three programs presented by the Ensemble Pygmalion were the sensation of this year’s Adelaide Festival. After the first program, Jansson Antmann, wri ...

And that is an apt comparison, as Robert Wilson, the director of Mary said… has collaborated with Glass, notably in Einstein on the Beach. In the write-up by the Adelaide Festival, Mary said… is ...

W it and beauty, pride and sorrow, self disgust and merriment, all the ingredients of Fingerless Theatre’s production of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, served in a gay ...

There is no doubt that the three programs presented by the Ensemble Pygmalion were the sensation of this year’s Adelaide Festival.

Nonetheless, there has been a series of three piano recitals there, by the Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen, and I attended the ...

Nearly forty years on, David Williamson’s Emerald City is possibly more pertinent, poignant and passionate, the skewering satire and sparkling dialogue finding solid contemporary footing in Mark ...

It strikes at the heart of steve j. spears’ The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin. Despite decriminalisation and an apparent advancement in social tolerance, the topical and emotional impact of The ...

Heavens to Murgatroyd, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a mysterious affair of style. Director and production designer, Ali Bendall, gazed into her Christie ball, and foresaw a set of monumental ...

Step aside The Boy from Oz, there’s a new contender for the title of ‘The Great Australian Musical’. Melbourne Theatre Company’s My Brilliant Career, based on the 1901 Miles Franklin novel has ...

A hit, a palpable hit, Hamlet Camp is full of wit, palpable wit. It begins with three poems, autobiographical, lyrical, wry, funny, each presented individually by the author/actor: Skip Retail Therapy ...