Menopause. The concept send shivers down my spine. Upon hearing the word I immediately think of my parents’ ongoing battle over the radiator and temperature control back home, not to mention my poor mother’s first ever serious encounter with anxiety. …
Thanks for keeping art in the CBD interesting, fortyfivedownstairs. ‘Retro Futurismus, New World‘ opened this weekend and I’m still trying to figure out how to describe it. Anni and Maude Davey call their show a ‘post-apocalyptic after party.’ They smash…
Be surprised to find yourself reflected on stage with Ranters Theatre’s new work, ‘Come Away With Me to the End of the World’ at the Malthouse Theatre. The real you, who ponders other’s reactions, and who speaks without thinking. A mediation…
He’s more than a haircut. He’s more than a meme. German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein is one of the modern world’s best innovators. Finally, he has his story told on stage in song and dance. With one of the catchiest theme…
‘The Events‘ is a play about a community-shattering act of violence. Each night actors Catherine McClements and Johnny Carr are joined on stage by a different Melbourne choir to tell the story. Before we even entered the theatre the foyer was…
On a cold Melbourne winter’s night, what better way to spend the evening than being in a room full of warm bodies at the theatre production of ‘4:48 Psychosis’, a play adapted by Bare Naked Theatre at the Metanoia…
When attending a Melbourne Theatre Company production, I am always confident of two things. One, the script will be interesting. Two, the set design will be excellent. ‘Skylight‘ delivered on both of these elements. The story takes place over a…
The spectacle of 50 naked women dancing onstage initially sparked both my curiosity and trepidation when I heard of Nic Green’s work Trilogy presented at Arts House. When the work opened with an endearing direct address by performers Nic Green…
‘Mira Fuchs‘ is a performance that promises ‘an eyeful’ and delivers an ontological quandary. At least that was how my plus one and I felt after attending the thought-provoking performance at North Melbourne’s Arts House. The performance by Melanie Jame Wolf…
Walk the rain-soaked streets of grey Melbourne over to a corner where dark desire and corrupt fallibility are set out for you in a passion play. When people referred to 1930s Hollywood creative James Cain as a crime writer, he…