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22/08/2018

SCARAMOUCHE JONES

Colin Friels is a skilled, seasoned performer, lauded and rightly so, but it is hard to tell what he sought to achieve in taking on this piece. The same question should be asked of his director Alkinos Tsilimidos: Why? In the director’s note, our only hint is that they so enjoyed Red (MTC 2012) that they felt…
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21/08/2018

DYBBUKS

DYBBUK (n): a malevolent wandering spirit that enters and possesses the body of a living person until exorcised. In Yiddish it comes from the word livdak which means to cling. Chamber Made has taken an iconic old-world play (‘The Dybbuk’ 1913, Ansky) and dug under it, deep into the dark, loud and warm female subconscious. During a…
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17/08/2018

CONCRETE IMPERMANENCE

Many structures we take for granted. Buildings, jobs, our history and memories and filing systems, our bodies, our minds. The earth beneath us, the sky above us. These things are essentially fragile – everything is – but our sanity relies on the untruth that they will last, and not fail us. Concrete Impermanence is a…
PERFORMANCE
17/08/2018

FRINGE / X

Unlike any other, Melbourne Fringe takes place in theatres and galleries, but also in living rooms, in alleyways, in bookshops and libraries, in restaurants and cafes, in the backseat of cars – anywhere you can imagine. By pushing boundaries and illuminating new thoughts and ideas, our Festival transforms not only our city’s places but its…
PERFORMANCE
09/08/2018

LOVESONG

Lovesong is a touching play; both melancholic and sweet, the production explores themes that are universal to almost all of us; falling in love and growing old. With a live Cello soundtrack and heart-achingly tender scenes, it’s surely one to have you reaching for the tissues. The Melbourne Critique spoke with director, Denny Lawrence, about…
PERFORMANCE
06/08/2018

CONCRETE IMPERMANENCE

Melding dance and art, this new work is an expression of how the animate and inanimate connect.   As the dancers interact with moveable sculptural objects on stage, they unfurl a story that tackles global and personal instability, environmental disaster and personal trauma. Through these relationships and environments, Concrete Impermanence reveals the fragility of human existence…
PERFORMANCE
01/08/2018

OVERTURE

‘Overture’ is not only a term used to name the prelude to an opera. It also means an opening; an offer; to uncover; an initial move toward negotiations. It’s a dance that considers the unrequited, the unattainable; an attempt to connect with particular beings of interest/obsession, including each other. Creating shared fictions, OVERTURE’s dancers reconstruct…
PERFORMANCE
27/07/2018

PREHISTORIC

Marcel Dorney has brought meaning to the word ‘Punk’ by writing the backstory to a fictional band from Brisbane, 1979. The local history lesson here is necessary and potent for our ingenuous Melbourne audience. Ultra-conservative Premier Johannes Bjelke-Petersen has been reigning for more than a decade, and grooming his crooked Police Force for longer still.…
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