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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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10/10/2017

DARK CIRCUS

As children, the two creatives behind Dark Circus were to find in television the inspiration for a work they would later go on to create as adults.  To call this work of Romain Bermond and Jean-Baptiste Maillet children’s theatre is completely reductive. This is not so much a comment on the work itself, but on the genre…
PERFORMANCE
10/10/2017

AMERICAN SONG

As a title for a show, American Song evokes memories of a time when America was wholesome and great. It brings forth not only names such as Plath, Whitman and Emerson, but also more contemporary works like Bruce Springsteen’s  Streets of Philadelphia or I’m On Fire.  But in more recent times with the sentiment of Making American Great Again…
PERFORMANCE
09/10/2017

UNDER SIEGE

Steeped in tradition from the long lineage of Peking Opera, Yang Lipings’ Under Siege is a performance introduced and narrated throughout by a single performer: the paper cutter, a stoic figure that remains unshaken throughout the work. For western audiences and those not familiar with Chinese culture, paper cutting is a highly regarded art form that dates back…
PERFORMANCE
07/10/2017

TAYLOR MAC

Taylor Mac’s presence will leave you revelling in an experience so far beyond comprehension and beauty that it will stop you dead in your tracks. If what this performer effortlessly embodies could be passed on as a gift, perhaps our world would slow down just enough to avoid that cataclysmic thing we all know is…
PERFORMANCE
06/10/2017

DEATH MATCH

Death Match is a challenging, sweat-driven new play by local playwright Morgan Rose. Not only physical theatre, the work is a probing look into the competitive spirit and human psyche when winning is the ultimate goal. Director Katrina Cornwall has been working with a fine and dedicated group of performers from the Monash Centre for…
PERFORMANCE
05/10/2017

ALWAYS WILL BE

On the lands of The Kulin Nations, our fine city built. Each year in solidarity and recognition of a culture that existed here for thousands of year, Tanderrum,  a ceremony of the five clans of the Central Kulin Nation, marks the beginning of what is unquestionably Australia’s premier arts event, Melbourne Festival. Having become over the…
PERFORMANCE
05/10/2017

YOUTHFIRE

What was a loss for Brisbane, is now a big win for Melbourne, but with our cultural scene being one of the best anywhere in the world, bursting at the seams with creative goodness, is there room for any more creative types to take shelter in our embracing city? The answer, a resounding yes. Particularly,…
MUSIC
04/10/2017

THE GRACEFUL GIRAFFE

A production by VCA, The Graceful Giraffe Cannot Become A Monkey is a stinging indictment of European colonialism. Penned way back in 1966 by Ogot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol here made modern and adapted for the stage by local independent maker,  Steve RE Pereira, Joined by this local luminary are performers  Caroline Muchineripi and Sami Obama. With the Melbourne…
PERFORMANCE
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