REVIEW BY JESSICA FANWONG EDITED BY CHARLOTTE FRASER In our current age of spiking inflation rates and a volatile political landscape, the second-hand market has seen a boom. We’re seeing a resurgence of trend comebacks: from Y2K to 80s glam to piratecore and grandpacore. For some of us, treasure-hunting a preloved store is nostalgic. For others, it’s out of necessity – the best place to … Continue reading Alanah Parkin’s Garage Sale
REVIEWED BY ELLA CALLOW-SUSSEX EDITED BY CHARLOTTE FRASER There was a sense of warmth in the alleyway next to the La Mama Courthouse. It was my first time back since they reopened and I was flying solo. My guest had to pull out last minute and I’ll admit I was a little intimidated. It was their closing afternoon, a 4pm show and it was sweltering … Continue reading Magical, subtle and real: Back to Te Maunga by Antipodes Theatre Company
REVIEW BY JESSICA FANWONG EDITIED BY CHARLOTTE FRASER We all remember that one teacher we particularly disliked in high school. Whether they were no-nonsense rule-enforcers who dispense detentions like spraying insect repellent, or full-on Miss Trunchbulls who should not be within 100 meters of minors. Hijinx Theatre Company’s Bathory Begins takes it to a higher notch – what if that teacher is a reincarnated vampiric … Continue reading Bathory Begins … but what ensues? A Guide to Disposing Vampiric Teachers
REVIEW BY JESSICA FANWONG EDITED BY OLIVIA DI GRAZIA We think we know the bedtime stories we were fed as kids – but do we really understand them? That is the question Ranting Mime Productions asks in their bold and stirring new work Brothers Bare, presented as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Written by Jessica Fallico and Iley Jones and directed by Fallico, Brothers … Continue reading Brothers Bare: A Naked Look At How Fairytales Shape Us
REVIEW BY CHARLOTTE FRASER EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT It is time to confront the darkness. You and me, here and now. It’s there, it’s calling. It’s time to hear its song and to sing back. Can you hear it? Sarah Miller’s What Lies Beneath is the song we can sing into the void. The play uses the myth of Persephone’s descent and the adjacent stories … Continue reading What Lies Beneath Our Forgetting And Our Remembering?
REVIEW BY EMMA PARFITT EDITED BY AZMY St Kilda is battening down the hatches as the hot and sunny day breaks into wind and rain. It is blowing an absolute gale as I enter Theatre Works and it is clear a storm is brewing. It’s a storm that continues right on through the doors and manifests in The Weathering. The haze is thick; the lights … Continue reading The Weathering Is Earth-Shattering Environmental Storytelling
REVIEW BY BRONTE LEMAIRE EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Content warning: this review contains mentions of suicide and sexual abuse. I’m not sure exactly what I expected when I walked into Theatre Works to see Beauty and the Beast. It looked kinky. It looked gay. So somehow, I didn’t see the 15-minute video of a man masturbating projected onto the back wall coming. It was very … Continue reading The Kinky Gay Masterpiece Of Jake Stewart’s Beauty And The Beast
REVIEW BY ELLA CALLOW-SUSSEX EDITED BY AZMY It is the first night of Fringe. On the way to Theatre Works I read out the blurb for The Importance of Being Earnest as Performed by Three F*cking Queens and a Duck to my guest so we could get a sense of what we were about to watch. The blurb proclaimed that “good taste and political correctness … Continue reading F*ck a Duck That’s Funny – The Importance of Being Earnest as Performed by Three F*cking Queens and a Duck
REVIEW BY ELLA CALLOW-SUSSEX EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT It started immediately. From the moment the audience walked into the Guild Theatre, the performers were already onstage. Droning lobby music filled a fast-food store in all its grease-stained life sucking glory. Performers were flipping burgers, making Tik Toks behind the counter and playing stack cup all while hiding from a roaming manager. It is an environment many … Continue reading A Fryer Fuelled Fever Dream of the Highest Order: Little Hall’s Work But This Time Like You Mean It
REVIEW BY OLIVIA DI GRAZIA EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT Standing shoulder-to-shoulder in the compact Theatre Works foyer, a crowd of buzzing theatre-goers gather for the sold-out opening night of Colour and Light: The Art of Sondheim, the newest offering from Watch This, Australia’s first and only Sondheim repertory company. Weaving a beautiful tapestry of the theatre giant’s immortal contributions to the musical theatre canon with … Continue reading We Had A Moment, A Marvellous Moment At Colour And Light: The Art Of Sondheim
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