culture
Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s Online King Lear for these times- extended to 2 September
nothing will come of nothing – truer words were never spoken in this climate of closures of plague…
18 Aug 2021 comedy
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2019: Gillian English- 10 Things I Hate About The Taming of The Shrew
Millenium update: this is one lady you can’t tame. Like a seer from Greek tragedy who shoots the…
14 Apr 2019 culture
Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ – musical comedy in the beautiful outdoors
A drama full of masculine desire, love, and reality versus fantasy awaits you with Melbourne Shakespeare Company‘s unique…
10 Mar 2019 comedy
Antipodean excellence does Shakespeare – MTC’s Twelfth Night with a knockout cast
Things turned upside down in this decadent, embellished romp with original compositions and superb music being the unique…
22 Nov 2018 culture
The Courtly Arts Renaissance Dancing with the Bard
On a sunny winter’s Sunday, we sat deep in the heart of a high timber-roofed colonial church and…
11 Jun 2018 culture
Bard To The Bone: 2018 Stratford Shakespeare On The River Festival
In Stratford, on the river Avon, three hours east into Gippsland, an annual cultural offering of all things…
18 May 2018 comedy
Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Romeo Is Not The Only Fruit
If you’ve never heard the phrase ‘bury your gays’, you’ve been watching too many hetero movies. Tropes are…
3 Apr 2018 culture
Completely Improvised Shakespeare at Melbourne Fringe
On a blustery spring evening, in a quiet northern pub, a Melbourne improv troupe took on the Bard…
20 Sep 2017 culture
Bell Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Bell Shakespeare’s productions are highly regarded and I am embarrassed to say that I have not yet had…
21 Jul 2017 culture
Melbourne Theatre Company’s ‘Macbeth’ – an epic night of theatre
A swashbuckling night of rough bravado awaits in Melbourne Theatre Company’s version of the Scottish play, Macbeth. Set…
15 Jun 2017