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  • STILL WANNA BE A RABBIT
    Presented at Quilt Room, Trades Hall as part of Melbourne Fringe 2022 from Thursday the 6th to Sunday the 9th of October. Over the course of Yumi Umiumare career they have continued to define their performance sensibilities as both steeped in the ancientness of Butoh and Physical Theatre- as much as being obsessed with the…
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  • SCOLD’S BRIDLE
    Presented at The Butterfly Club as part of Melbourne Fringe 2022, from Monday the 3rd to Sunday the 9th of October. Scold’s Bridle- was a draconian implement used to torture, degrade and silence women. Akin to something from the dark ages- it is from this metaphoric title, that this contemporary performance begins. With Frankly holding…
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  • JAGGED LITTLE PILL
    For a certain generation, the music of Alanis Morissette is forever etched into a collective angst filled consciousness, and in Jagged Little Pill the memory of such music comes flooding back in giddy waves.  Introduced first to the all- American Healy family by Mary Jane Healy (played by Natalie Bassingthwaighte)- recording their annual Christmas message. From here…
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  • RAPTURE: BATHTUB EDITION
    Moria Finucane aside from a national treasure, possesses a rare gift that many others could only dream of holding in their own hands. It’s an ability to draw audiences in, holding them captive until the very last moments of a performance, and in Rapture: Bathtub Edition, we are once again reminded of this. Powerful, enigmatic and…
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  • HYDRA
    “The world has changed. There’s no fresh water and machines have taken all the jobs.”- this is Hydra, the latest work by award the winning Melbourne collective Double Water Sign and written by Rachel Perks and directed by Bridget Balodis. You may be familiar with the work of this company through previous productions Ground Control (2016) and Moral Panic (2018), like…
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19/10/2019

TOKEN ARMIES

Token Armies is an immersive experience, but is it a successful one? Having witnessed the preview and opening night performance, some of the magic that was first there is now nowhere to be found. Perhaps the hardest pill to swallow is that within this show, are not only dancers but live animals. If it is no…
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
18/10/2019

GRAND FINALE

Very few shows deserve standing ovations, but Grand Finale deserved every second of the 10-minute standing ovation it received on the second night of its Melbourne International Arts Festival season. I have never seen such an incredible, awe-inspiring piece of dance. In the 16 years I’ve spent working within the industry and five of those…
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
12/10/2019

TWO SHOWS / WORLDS APART

The Melbourne International Arts Festival 2019 presents two works at the Malthouse that may seem worlds apart but share many similarities: Brimful Of Asha and Grey Rock. They both deal with cultures that are not of our own, of matters of the heart and of aspiration and escapism.  Brimful Of Asha is like a big, warm embrace or sunshine…
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
09/10/2019

SPLIT

In a festival program which says as much about the state of dance, as it does our current consumption of dance, this year’s Melbourne Festival have chosen to re-mount three locally produced works. These three pieces are Lloyd’s seminal Overture, Stephanie Lake’s larger than life Colossusand andSplit by Lucy Guerin. And while much can be said about this perhaps…
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
06/10/2019

ANTHEM

Many (most often within the arts) herald works such as Anthem,as being necessary or vital  – threatening to fracture and disrupt the fragility of mainstream discourse. But when art still remains such an undervalued recourse, what is its purpose, and how far-reaching is arts conversation? Broken into five interconnected storylines, Anthem is a work of scale – not only…
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
05/10/2019

HIGH PERFORMANCE PACKING TAPE

“Don’t try this at home” is fair warning that this show is not for the faint-hearted. A delectable blend of high octane stunts, humour and day-to-day objects pushed further than they ever should be, High Performance Packing Tape is billed as a ‘master class in physical performance’. While the performance narrowly misses such a claim, it does…
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
13/09/2019

ANTHEM

“Does Australia really share a dream? Do we really sing with one voice?” Twenty-one years ago, four playwrights and a composer came together to create Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? – a series of powerful, interwoven vignettes that captured the zeitgeist of Melbourne and Australia in the 1990s. Now, the same team reunite to take the…
INTERVIEWS PERFORMANCE
02/09/2019

COLOSSUS

Melbourne Critique is back in action, taking a look at what will be the last Melbourne Festival as we know it, and as Jonathon Holloway’s last festival as Artistic Director, it is a program brimming with goodness, focusing not just on the big international names, but also the work of local creators. Perhaps the most…
INTERVIEWS PERFORMANCE
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