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  • 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…
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  • 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…
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  • MOJO JUJU / NATIVE TONGUE
    It is like where the earth meets the sky, out there on the horizon, past yonder, the other-worldliness of a voice and a kind of talent that comes once in generations, mixing with a grounded humility that brings it all home. This is more than a night of music, this is about the intimacy of…
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  • 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…
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  • OUR WOMEN
    Basking in the light of the Leonard French ceiling in the great hall, Indigenous fashion designers will collaborate with artists and musicians to deliver a unique indigenous cultural spectacular, honouring the strengths and talents of our female creators. ‘Our Women’ is inspired by the tribal and cultural stories, featuring female Indigenous figures from around the…
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26/07/2018

NOW SOUND

Famously known as the live music capital of the world, Melbourne has achieved iconic status. Countless local artists have launched their careers on the storied stages of the city’s inner north, even while gentrification threatens the scene’s viability and other issues, including sexism, continue to undercut it. Now Sound: Melbourne’s Listening, an immersive capsule of…
SEEN SOUND
25/07/2018

MELBOURNE FESTIVAL / X

From the 3rd of October, Melbourne International Arts Festival will ignite our city with a program which both provokes and inspires.  Melbourne International Arts Festival seeks to connect art forms, people and ideas;  this is nowhere more  present more than in the eclectic mix of shows, curated by Jonathon Holloway in this, his third year…
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25/07/2018

FUTURE VINTAGE II

In the continued exploration of second hand stores in the Inner North, a few weeks ago The Melbourne Critique caught up with Elsje Jordan, the mastermind behind ‘Sally’s Retro Fashion,’ one of the oldest and best known vintage stores. In the growing ‘up-market urbanization’ of inner Melbourne, this store is a vintage monument and a…
STRUT
20/07/2018

MELANIE JAME WOLF: HIGHNESS

First up, this work is not of the Australian cannon, it is slow, languid, and purposeful, oozing with a kind of sensuality often lost on local dancers and dance makers: this is Highness, the latest piece by Melanie Jame Wolf and Savage Amusements – a work that within its tight 60 minute run time, delves…
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19/07/2018

MELANCHOLIA

The work of Lars von Trier is, to the say the least, an acquired taste; much like this new production, which gives renewed life to one his most recognized work. Aside from personal taste, one cannot dispute that this adaptation is a rich and sumptuous affair, as much beautiful as it is menacing. In the…
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14/07/2018

THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY

A Public Reading of An Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney – July 11 201 –MKA Theatre of New Writing had a bouncy castle custom-made for the show. It is snow-white and curved like the Buena Vista Pictures Distribution logo, a castle in the sky, offset against pitch black. The Manderson-Galvin family of…
SEEN STAGE
13/07/2018

POLYGRAPH

With over 30 years of professional theatre experience under her belt and her own theatre company, OpticNervePerformance Group, Tanya Gerstle certainly has an incredible wealth of theatrical knowledge to share. After many years of teaching and researching she has even developed her own style of training, Pulse, which produces memorising, authentic physical theatre. The Melbourne Critique spoke with Tanta Gerstle about her unconventional…
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13/07/2018

HIGHNESS

Through intimacy and choreography artist Melanie Jame Wolf in Mira Fuchs aroused something deep within her audience. A razor sharp work, of the upmost contemporary, an unfurling beauty poised. This work, a story of The Whore, had the artist draw upon her time spent as an erotic dancer, it served a titillating introduction to an, as…
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