Melbourne Festival 2015: The Plus Ones’ Top 10 picks
View The Plus Ones’ guide to the Melbourne Festival (8-25 October 2015).
Category: culture
Lessons with Luis and Madeleine
I’ve got to admit, the ‘Song Off’ title from Lessons with Luis and Madeline‘s new show had me wondering if I was about to be witness to a Survivor-style battle to the death… on a Sunday afternoon at The Workers Club….
Fringe Review: Asian Ghost-ery Store
The Fringe Festival brings together many different types of performance, and during the first half of this year’s collection of shows was a very interesting piece called ‘Asian Ghost-ery Store’, created by members the comedy troupe ‘Only the Human’, and…
Fringe Review: As You Like It
Merging classic theatre with contemporary art, ARDEN’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It‘ is thoughtfully and tastefully done. Under the direction of Julian Beckedahl, ‘As You Like It’ delivered Shakespeare’s work beautifully. Keeping the original language, the interpretation and…
Circa’s Carnival of the Animals: beatboxing to aerial acrobatics
Circa’s ‘Carnival of the Animals’ follows a group of acrobatic performers as they journey to their circus home to perform. Along the way they take on the persona of a variety of animals, including butterflies, cats, chickens, elephants and frogs. This…
The best events we attended in September
Melbourne, you just keep getting better and better. In September, we darted between launch parties for Melbourne’s new Southbank market, a pirate tavern, Scribble Creative’s salon featuring an independent publisher, the opening of a new Thai restaurant in Collingwood, and…
Literary Collection Dinner with Debra Oswald
I’ve enjoyed some nice dinners with titillating conversation in my life. But these had nothing on going to dinner last night with Debra Oswald. The Plus Ones were invited as part of a collaboration with The Wheeler Centre and the…
‘They Saw a Thylacine’ at The Malthouse Theatre
Third time’s a charm. I missed ‘They Saw a Thylacine’ at both the Melbourne and Adelaide Fringe Festivals (not to mention the resulting tour from their Tour Ready award). So I was delighted to attend the show’s opening night at…
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The Australian Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty
When I was eight or nine years old I started dancing at our local studio. My mum wanted me to do ballet but even at that age I was stubborn and thought I was the coolest – and so I…