Big Bang: “Germinal” Creates a Universe Out of Nothing On Stage
In theatre-making, we often talk about world creation. “What is the world of the play?” teachers...
Read MorePosted by Jana Perkovic | 1st Nov 2017 | Australia, Festivals, Melbourne, Playwriting, Review
In theatre-making, we often talk about world creation. “What is the world of the play?” teachers...
Read MorePosted by Sarah Balkin | 23rd Oct 2017 | Australia, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
Taylor Mac described The Inauguration, which helped launch the 2017 Melbourne Festival, as “a...
Read MorePosted by Sandra D'urso | 23rd Oct 2017 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Gender
Despite its forays into dark subject matter, Caravan, staged as part of the Melbourne Festival, is...
Read MorePosted by David Chisholm | 22nd Oct 2015 | Australia, Musical Theatre, Review
Last night, The Experiment – of which I’m part – opened at the Melbourne Festival. The story of...
Read MorePosted by Paul Rae | 15th Oct 2015 | Adaptation, Australia, Review
In Desdemona, Toni Morrison’s response to Shakespeare’s Othello, which opens today at the...
Read MorePosted by Robert Hassan | 14th Oct 2015 | Adaptation, Australia, Melbourne, Review
The blurb for Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s stage adaption of George Orwell’s 1984 for the...
Read MorePosted by Janine Forbes-Rolfe | 23rd Oct 2014 | Australia, Festivals, Review
When the Mountain Changed its Clothing, the Heiner Goebbels-directed show currently on at the...
Read MorePosted by Diana Bossio | 20th Oct 2014 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
Hipbone Sticking Out, the Big hART production now playing at the Melbourne Festival, begins in...
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