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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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28/09/2018

WRITE LOUD & CLEAR ABOUT WHAT HURTS

50 minutes is the therapist’s hour and also the run time of most fringe shows. This allows the therapist to take notes before the next client, the punters to run for a drink before the next show, and for performers to scrabble with rapid bump ins and outs. This show boldly places a ticking clock…
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27/09/2018

LOU WALL’S DRAG RACE

This a a fun, frolicking show, frocked up, fabulous with some serious statements to be made, and it makes these, rather successfully. Using drag, a medium which, for too long, has been dominated by white sic- gendered men that use the medium, ironically – to push misogynistic, exclusionary and often transphobic humour, which in today’s…
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27/09/2018

DUDEBOX

One might be still scratching their head the morning after seeing Dudebox, it so delightfully obscures in the most crass and obscene way; from the moment you enter the theatre space, audience are introduced to this motley crew of performers by way of three individuals, dressed to the nines in two dollar shop sequins, mingling…
PERFORMANCE
26/09/2018

MELBOURNE FESTIVAL

This years Melbourne Festival is  set to b a celebration,  a reminder of the brilliance of fire, music, story and  how art can amplify our joy, intensify our relationships and just fundamentally pump our tyres. It is an intervention, a reminder of the range of stories in the world that we need to hear and…
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24/09/2018

CASTING OFF

A Good Catch have returned to the Melba Spiegeltent, where this piece had its debut almost a year ago. Casting Off has all the polish of a well run-in show with the presence and humour of a freshly improvised farce. The audience are completely charmed before the tricks even begin; there is generosity and casual…
PERFORMANCE
22/09/2018

SEEPING

An entire atmospheric shift happens as I walk into the room. Dressed by China Aleisse, the space is doused in flowers and nature, draped fabrics, fairy lights, candles flickering and incense wafting through the air. A swirl of enticing reds, pinks and oranges light the room. I immediately feel comforted – this space feels like…
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22/09/2018

19 WEEKS

On the fifth floor of a city hotel, there is a pool. By the pool is an actor in a red swimsuit. We sit by the water, dip our feet. It is such a simple idea – a play in a pool – though it feels luxurious and a truly innovative use of inactive space.…
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21/09/2018

TURTLE

Theatre is at its best when a man walks onstage with a carrot and a far away expression and we accept, beyond a doubt, that he is a turtle. Theatre is even better when a turtle (who looks like a bored man) is embodied by the spirit of someone who we thought was dead –…
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