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27/11/2017

DESERT 6:29 PM

Teenage suicide and the aftermath experienced by family friends and loved ones have long proven to be rich source materials for both stage and screen. Romeo and Juliet is one well-known example. Now, in a world where increasing pressure is placed on young people to succeed, depression and self-harm are perhaps now conversations of greater importance than…
PERFORMANCE
27/11/2017

VIVID WHITE

Vivid: (adjective) producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind. If only this was an apt description for this overly long and quite frankly arduous and boring study of the Australian dream of owning one’s home. Instead we are offered up a rancid piece of commentary that could barely entertain a new born, let…
PERFORMANCE
25/11/2017

BREAD CRUMBS

Performing as part of Melbourne’s Poppyseed festival in 2017, Ruby Johnston and Benjamin Nichol’s Breadcrumbs is a parodic amalgamation of fairy tale tropes loosely inspired by Hansel and Gretel, peppered with contemporary Melbourne references. It’s a humorous and uncomfortable exploration of the ways in which domestic violence silently and insidiously becomes part of the norm.…
PERFORMANCE
23/11/2017

LOVE AND ANGER

  After winning the Green Room Cabaret Innovation in Form Award in 2017 with her first solo work GRUMBLE:​ ​Sex​ ​Clown​ ​Saves​ ​The​ ​World​, Betty Grumble continues her feministing cabaret smash up with a show that makes women weep for the fact we can’t bleed, break, breathe without getting it wrong or being inhuman, terrifying many audience…
PERFORMANCE
23/11/2017

ROOMAN

The first thing that strikes you about the latest work from Fleur Elise Noble is the graphic and beautifully detailed composition, which extends further than visual. It’s a superb mix that also encompasses sound and when used, lighting also adds yet another dynamic new dimension. A series of interconnected projections becomes everything, with any movement…
PERFORMANCE
22/11/2017

POST TRAUMA

  In the wake of an unknown disaster, characters here emerge. The latest work from Rawcus asks of the audience “What propels us to get up after loss, after heartbreak, after failure?” In a statement that relates as much to the individual as it does to the current state of play for the global collective. Fifteen performers…
PERFORMANCE
20/11/2017

ROMEO IS NOT THE ONLY FRUIT

Overcoming a somewhat shaky start, writer and director Jean Tong’s Romeo Is Not The Only Fruit finds its feet with a ridiculous number about not being racist in this original, witty and sometimes irreverent musical. Inspired by the Dead Lesbian Syndrome trope, also known as Bury Your Gays, Tong incorporates an abundance of pop culture,…
PERFORMANCE
15/11/2017

A YUMMY AUSTRALIAN TOUR

This now famed and iconic performance, began as sweet protest, emerging from  a space created for the discovery of something new,  from both dance and queer performance. In the years which have followed Yummy’s debut season, a shift in the attitudes and, in the wanting for creation,  has been adopted by an entire generation, unique to our city, if you are…
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