An impressive solo performance during this year’s Fringe Festival, ‘This Jew Sits’ is a slick and well-constructed piece that engages from beginning to end. The performance is set over the duration of the protagonist’s duty as a shomeret, staying by…
Having grown up in East Germany, my childhood in the 80s was mainly dominated by Russian fairytales rather than Transformers and arcade games. Luckily I have enough nerdy friends here in Melbourne and NZ to have received a delayed education…
Human relationships are elegantly laid out in ‘AKAI ITO and the Forest‘. Literally. This interactive art event is experiential theatre combining oral storytelling, soundscape, sculpture and dance. You walk yourself through the show. Mapping the atmospheric space feels like you are…
‘Castles‘ is one of those performances that defies reviews. A cross-artform conundrum that incorporates song, dance, theatre and visual art, ‘Castles’ refuses to fit into any one category. Even its content is difficult to define. Trying to describe what this…
‘Nothing Special‘ brilliantly walks the fine line between madness and truth telling. Simone French and Tom Halls, creators of the show, have mastered the push-pull of confusion and clarity, taking the audience on a mad journey. The thought that might most…
For any fans of Singaporean horror legends, or those who are curious about what they entail, then the offbeat Fringe performance of ‘Salty‘ is worth a look. ‘Salty’ looks at three such stories related to demonic mythology: the Toyol, the ‘Oily…
Dr Duck is a newly formed comedy group presenting ‘The Duck Will See You Now‘. This show is old class sketch comedy. The actors build on punchy one-liners that will have you LOLing all night long. They have the gags…
Shake things up a little and venture north of The Fringe Hub. Go on, I dare you. If you are yet to leave your comfort zone of Arts House, then you are missing out. At Wick Studios, a funky venue…
On arrival at Sharmini Kumar’s ‘Shakespeare in Therapy‘, a self-help group set in the afterlife, I was directed to write a nametag for myself. Then I took my seat in the circle of plastic chairs. Was I going to be…
Fancy a meetup for a secret assignation in a dark space hidden beneath an official building late any night this week? Hear talk of handsome men and the deeds they get up to in their designer suits in the line…