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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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27/11/2017

THE AGE MUSIC VICTORIA AWARDS

Now in its in 12th year, The Age Music Victoria Awards co-presented by Triple R 102.7FM and PBS 106.7FM was held at 170 Russell. For our local music industries, this is the night of nights held in celebration of the great music produced here in Victoria. Not only was the evening for recognising our local musicians, a whole swag of performances…
MUSIC
27/11/2017

A GARDEN OF PLEASURE

A place where imagination and magic coalesce into sensory wonder, The Pleasure Garden is an immersive, creative arts and music feast, It will bring to life Cantani Gardens on the St Kilda Fore Shore,  with a diverse and unique musical programme, roving performances, immersive art works and installations. With the likes of Mickey Space and Fat Freddys Drop…
MUSIC
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
24/11/2017

SARAY ILUMINADO

  Saray Iluminado traces culture through historical lineage that for some seem removed, though to others they stand as recent and important monuments to both the personal and the collective. Not only musicality and technique are on display here. This ensemble also sheds light on the importance of historical canon. Through music, hope grows that cultural…
MUSIC
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…
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