For me, the true sign of a good circus is that breathless, ‘ohmygosh what is he about to do?!’ feeling where you can’t help but feel nervous for the poor performer as he handstands atop six precariously stacked wooden crates…
Do you like dance, ice-skating, art, fantastic music and Canadians? We just found your perfect Melbourne Festival show. Canada’s Le Patin Libre realised the possibilities opened up when you combine ice-skating with contemporary dance. During their show, Vertical Influences, five…
Playback Productions’ version of ‘The Wedding Singer: The Musical’ is amateur theatre at its best. In recent years the company has grown from staging community theatre, drawing from local talent, to a company that hosts such wide and varied talent…
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is a Scottish Catholic girl’s school – so prestigious that they have had sixteen pregnancies in the last year. Or was it seventeen? The six schoolgirls are on a school excursion to Edinburgh to compete…
Epic. Bold. Inflatable. Understated magnificence. Catching internationally lauded Back To Back Theatre’s current Melbourne Festival offering ‘Lady Eats Apple‘ turns your world asunder. Yes, it’s the Garden of Eden story, but told in the uniquely disquieting fashion this company is…
What if you could harness the power of lightning and turn it into a musical instrument? That’s essentially what we witnessed from Glasgow based artist Robbie Thomson’s Melbourne Festival piece, XFRMR (Transformer). Held within the Substation in Newport, Thomson’s piece…
Fans of dogs and live music have found their paradise at the Dogapalooza festival. The music acts Thelma Plum, The Little Stevies, Sam Lohs, and Leah Flanagan kept dogs and their humans entertained. The dog-friendly festival featured food trucks, dog product vendors,…
‘Dance Territories‘ is a provocative double-bill comprising bold works by Australian artist Sarah-Jane Norman and French-Algerian artist Nacera Belaza. Norman’s suite of installation pieces powerfully addresses Australia’s bloody colonial history. ‘The River’s Children’ is an interactive piece where the audience…
Fall down the rabbit hole of The Butterfly Club and into the world of weird and wonderful. This colourfully eclectic venue captures your attention with an array of tiny trinkets. I carefully admired the wall to wall exhibit of bits…
Despite the use of cutting-edge technology, Lynette Wallworth’s virtual reality film Collisions has been a long time coming. The film tells the story of Martu man Nyarri Nyarri Morgan, whose first encounter with Western culture came when he witnessed the explosive…