MY NAME IS JIMI

Walking out of the Fairfax theatre, a well-dressed woman in her 50s declared that “without all the visual spectacle, this story would have been too dark to tell”. My Name Is Jimi was developed by Queensland Theatre in collaboration with artist Jimi Bani. It’s an autobiographical piece that centres on the performer’s country, Mabuiag Island…

PERFORMANCE

08/10/2018

LA BOITE / PRIZE FIGHTER

From fight choreography so visceral you’ll feel every blow to writing that packs an emotional punch, Prize Fighter ducks and weaves with astonishing grace. The play marks the debut of a Congolese-Australian writer Future D. Fidel and, after raved-about seasons, finally steps through the ropes to stagger audiences in Melbourne. In the lead up to its…

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06/10/2018

WATT

Taking four years to complete the writings which would become Watt, this adaption of Samuel Beckett’s piece is in stark contrast to such stretching time; it is instead condensed into a single performance of just one hour in length, and it’s solid stuff. It, of course, focuses in on central character, a man of this work’s…

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05/10/2018

ASUNA / 100 KEYBOARDS

Since the late 1990s Asuna has created experimental sound works that vault genre divides, crossing from hip-hop to hardcore punk to freak folk noise and low-fi pop. Asuna’s landmark work 100 Keyboards is a site-specific listening experience in which one hundred battery operated keyboards are sensitively brought to life, generating an undulating sonic harmony both mesmerising and mysterious. The crowd…

MUSIC

04/10/2018

TRUSTEES

We enter the space, stripped of its usual seating bank; we are instead asked to look inward, at each other, as the space is now set in the round. How this performance begins, is nothing as it ends. The narrative twists and turns between monologue and script, through to all the more personal anecdotes. The…

PERFORMANCE

02/10/2018

COLOSSUS

The Art Centre has never looked so young, the theatre brimming with fresh faced excitement, on stage are 50 dancers, laid out in a circular formation; this is dance of epic proportion. The maker is, of course, Stephanie Lake, an artist who needs no introduction, an individual that, through their electric, white hot choreography, sets…

PERFORMANCE

27/09/2018

LOU WALL’S DRAG RACE

This a a fun, frolicking show, frocked up, fabulous with some serious statements to be made, and it makes these, rather successfully. Using drag, a medium which, for too long, has been dominated by white sic- gendered men that use the medium, ironically – to push misogynistic, exclusionary and often transphobic humour, which in today’s…

PERFORMANCE

27/09/2018

DUDEBOX

One might be still scratching their head the morning after seeing Dudebox, it so delightfully obscures in the most crass and obscene way; from the moment you enter the theatre space, audience are introduced to this motley crew of performers by way of three individuals, dressed to the nines in two dollar shop sequins, mingling…

PERFORMANCE