REVIEW BY GRYFF CONNAH EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT OCD often manifests as an amorphous, nameless thing. It metastasises in silence, slowly and surely until, one day, its shapelessness is your whole shape and it is staring you in the face from all sides. I would know; I am living with it. The experience of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) is something that is very difficult to … Continue reading ‘no title’ – But No Less Power
REVIEW BY AKSHITA BENNY EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT The tension is already palpable upon entering the confines of the Kaleide Theatre, when the voice over of the judge plays in the space and you can hear from the left the voice of a guard. Twelve jurors file to the stage from the door on stage left, fanning themselves and complaining about the heat. When the … Continue reading RMIT Redacts’ Twelve Angry Jurors: A Thought-Provoking Take On A Classic
REVIEW BY TARAS SCURRY EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT This play was simply outstanding. There’s no other way to start the dialogue about this performance than to emphasise just that. It’s quick-witted, well-researched and a performance that has both backbone and expressiveness. The theatre was the very encapsulation of an intimate setting. It is a small brick room upstairs at the Motley Bauhaus, with a stage … Continue reading 6 Guys An Immigrant Trans Person of Colour Will Date in Melbourne: A Bombastic Success
REVIEW BY BRONTE LEMAIRE EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Adapted for the stage by actor Robert Meldrum and director Richard Murphet, Still takes us through six different prose pieces written by Samuel Beckett. These include Fizzle Still, Variations on a Still Point (which was comprised of Still 3 and Sounds), Stirrings Still, Heard in the Dark and One Evening. What you will quickly notice is that … Continue reading Still: A Moment With Beckett
REVIEW BY GRACE DWYER EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Content warning: This play and review contain discussions of rape, murder and gender-based violence. On an appropriately dark and stormy night, we take the tram to Prahran and walk down a quiet alley to the MC Showroom. It’s a nifty little theatre at the top of several sets of stairs, buzzing with what looks like a full … Continue reading “He May Have Been Stupid, But He’s Not Evil”: Lunatix Theatre’s Blackrock
REVIEW BY KATYA EWING EDITED BY MYA HELOU Don your necktie and prepare your cucumber sandwiches, for this is not one to miss. RMIT RedActs have knocked it out of Hertfordshire and brought to Kaleide Theatre a slice of Wilde with their rendition of The Importance of Being Earnest. The plot is simple. Jack Worthing (Bodhi Keech) is attempting to live a double life. As … Continue reading The Importance of Being Earnest: Prepare for a Wilde Ride…
REVIEW BY EMMA PARFITT EDITED BY MYA HELOU Green and purple lights glide across the audience of the Regent Theatre. Bright hues refract from mirrors, pulsing onto the curtain. A large neon sign reading ‘Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse’ points to a gap in the curtain where haze, lit in bright green, leeches onto the stage. It’s an enticing sneak peek into the strange and unusual world we … Continue reading Beetlejuice: The Musical Makes a Home for the Strange and Unusual
REVIEW BY JESSICA FANWONG EDITED BY RACHEL THORNBY “I can smell what you did, I can smell it on you…” Visceral and intimate, Liminal Theatre’s The Selkie Project marks the company’s return with a highly experimental and carefully crafted character study of the selkie. Created by Georgie Durham (who also performs as the selkie) and directed by Draf Draffin, The Selkie Project is a retelling … Continue reading Liminality and Longing in The Selkie Project
REVIEW BY JESSIE WILLIAMS EDITED BY OLIVIA DI GRAZIA Our Seventh String made its way into the world subtly, but not without notice. Tucked away in the back of the Motley Bauhaus in Carlton, Our Seventh String captured the complexities of life in a surprising and moving way. The development and collaboration that goes into building such a microcosm of life truly reflects how connected … Continue reading Singing the Praises of Our Seventh String
REVIEW BY ASHLEIGH SHEARMAN EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Imagine it’s late, you’re out at a pub, the smell of stale beer and sticky floors fills the air. From the speakers, the sound of 80s Aussie rock is cut off as four acapella voices begin to intone the “Sanctus” of the Catholic Mass. “What the heck is going on?” you might ask yourself. The confusion only … Continue reading Amplified: More Than Good, It’s Divinyls
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