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  • GOING DOWN
    Going Down, penned by Michele Lee, is the kind of side-splitting comedy that commands its audience to put aside all airs and graces and, in the process, take a long hard look at their entitlement and privilege, particularly if you’re a Gorman-wearing, soy latte sipping inner-Melbourne-living individual, because if you are, you are most certainly…
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  • FEAST YOUR EARS
    As we enter the days of Feast Your Ears Radio Festival 2018, The Melbourne Critique talks to Emma Peel, the presenter celebrating the first decade of her radio show  ‘Switched On.’  Emma can be described as ‘The High Priestess of Vintage’ and this trend is apparent in her love and aesthetic choices across both music…
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  • CARGO
    In 2013, the story behind a feature film called CARGO, began with it being selected as a Tropfest finalist, while it was then still only a short film. This success then lead to a series of amazing breakthroughs;  describing the process, Ben Howling; one half of the creative team, says that “It felt like it took a long time…
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  • THE BLEEDING TREE
    When you go to see a play that already has multiple awards and sell-out success at the Sydney Theatre, you know that you probably won’t be disappointed. Gripping, powerful and beautifully poetic, The Bleeding Tree certainly does not disappoint. This minimalist production explores family abuse, moral conflict, community and vengeance; all set against the quintessential…
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  • THOSE STRINGS ARE FOR GIRLS
    Laura Imbruglia is the producer and host of something called ‘Amateur Hour,’ an online variety special full of skits and local music.  She is a musician, a DJ and she has a short film in this year’s St Kilda Film Festival called Gender Reversed Guitar Shopping.  The Melbourne Critique caught up with her to find out why she has all these women in a…
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11/04/2018

THE MUSICAL BODY

Can music be used as a tool for healing, liberation, transformation, and empowerment? Charlotte Roberts, improvisational artist and experiential music educator, argues that it can do all of this and more. In The Musical Body she uses group improvised singing and story telling to encourage personal transformation and to challenge cultural myths and social norms.…
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05/04/2018

CURIOUS AND CURIOUSER

First penned by Lewis Carroll in 1865, Alice In Wonderland became an instant and timeless classic, that allowed for the suspension of belief and for the entering into a slippery reality that still inspires and delights both the young and the young at heart alike. Since Alice made her silver screen debut in 1903, the…
SEEN
05/04/2018

FIERCE

Australia we have a problem, and we need to talk. Society is caught in a somewhat perpetual cycle of male dominance, and toxic masculinity is everywhere. Wage discrepancy, violence against woman and rape culture are all to often commonplace, or, more worryingly, all too often swept under the rug. Where in this testosterone driven place…
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04/04/2018

TANIA BOSAK

As we enter the soft days of early autumn Melbourne continues to navigate its busy ‘art and culture traffic’ swiftly and enthusiastically. Boîte’s World Music Open Mic continues this month back at its Compass Pizza Headquarters in East. Brunswick  Last month The Melbourne Critique shared with you the incredible work of Gelareh Pour. This April we…
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27/03/2018

COLDER

Colder- a work that at its heart deals with the loss and the decay of our  closest relationships; in the midst of a loved one going missing what is left of the emotional landscape in their wake? Heavy material that plays on memory and provides a dark playground for the cast to idle away amongst-…
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26/03/2018

TRUE RAD GIRL

Free, fierce and gloriously unapologetic, Silent Arrow is the edgy lingerie brand we’ve been pining for. Their bold designs and stylish cuts may look too sexy to be comfortable. However, the brand boasts snug underwear with soft, flexible fabrics. Silent Arrow uses fashion as a platform to promote diversity and body confidence; plus-size women with…
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20/03/2018

GLOBAL INDIGENOUS SHOWCASE

The Global Indigenous Runway 2018 presented high end fashion by Indigenous designers from the outback of Australia to the shores of New Zealand and Pacific, and even from the Rocky Mountains of Canada. Presented at Melbourne Museum as part of VAMFF 2018, guests were treated to bubbles and canapes upon arrival, then were mesmerised by…
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20/03/2018

ALONE

  Every few years Melbourne witnesses coming up through the ranks, a hand full of incredible and virile dance makers, who continue to reinvent not just their own practice, but the way in which we as audience interact and respond to dance. And though it is true that everything in art has been done before, there…
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