Thursday, October 24, 2013
We’re here to tell you one of your Dreamtime stories and make it one of ours. Kamahi Djordon King’s Fool had me from those words. The Shadow King is the King Lear story re-…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:09AMWednesday, October 23, 2013
No one makes theatre like The Rabble do. It’s like co-creators Emma Valente and Kate Davis take the concept of theatre and re-create it into something that looks like theatre, but feel…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:05AMWednesday, October 16, 2013
I think there is something fascinating about teenage behaviour. I think it’s fascinating that adults are repulsed by it, or troubled by it, as though we didn’t do the same thing then or …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMAdam J A Cass’s Roam was developed through the Red Stitch Writers Program. Like his very successful I Love You, Bro (first seen at the 2007 Fringe), it’s about remembering t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:52AMFriday, October 11, 2013
In Spite Of Myself, starring Nicola Gunn, conceived by Nicola Gunn and directed by Nicola Gunn, is all about Nicola Gunn. We know this because Nicola Gunn keeps telling us. But the show quic…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:18AMTuesday, October 8, 2013
Ballarat’s second annual cabaret festival kicks off on Thursday with a sold-out opening gala. Over four nights, from 10 to 13 October, some of the best cabaret artists can be see in 14 sho…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:41AMIt’s impossible to not adore Eddie Perfect. He sings and dances like an entire 1930s Hollywood musical, he has the best hair and he lets us laugh and cringe at the best and the worst o…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:44AMFriday, October 4, 2013
It’s the third weekend of the Melbourne Fringe, which means it’s your last chance to see some of the best and most curious of independent art and artists. Fringe is art without a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PMTuesday, October 1, 2013
It’s Tuesday night at the Melbourne Fringe, which means cheap tickets for most shows. As always, take the risk and choose something you know nothing about, but today’s recommenda…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:30AMSunday, September 29, 2013
One of the many things I’m loving about this year’s Fringe is the amount of full houses. I saw two shows on Friday night where there wasn’t a spare seat. In other words, do…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:03AMThursday, September 26, 2013
It’s the second Friday of the Melbourne Fringe, so it’s time to plan for another weekend of constant theatre going. Today’s choices are musicals and cabarets (and a show pe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:34PMI thought Kids Killing Kids was astonishing; the friend I saw it with was astonished that I even applauded at the end. We’re not the only people experiencing such a chasm of differ…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:54AMSunday, September 22, 2013
My biggest Fringe fear is being the only person to turn up (it has happened), but it’s been full houses all weekend. In the Hub and other Fringe theatres, audiences are taking chance…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:02AMSaturday, September 21, 2013
The Melbourne Fringe is officially open and choosing Fringe shows is a daunting task that makes voting below the line simple. Trusting reviews can be a bit like voting above the line and hop…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:25AMMonday, September 2, 2013
“Dance for me, Salome!” Never has Oscar Wilde been so gay – and he was in prison for sodomy and gross indecency when his play Salome was first performed in 1896. Little One…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:47AMSaturday, August 31, 2013
Singin’ In the Rain is a feel good musical production guaranteed to stir your laughter and get your toes tapping to those familiar tunes immortalised by the 1952 film of the same name, sta…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:08AMSunday, August 25, 2013
Today’s the last chance to see Mein Kampf at La Mama. It’s been sold out for days, but you never know your luck if you turn up at the door and put your name on the waiting list…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:53AMFriday, August 23, 2013
There’s no maybe about it; night maybe is a must. Stuck Pig’s Squealing are consistently a bit awesome and this new work by writer Kit Brookman is as beautiful as it is distur…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:59AMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Circa take circus to a whole new level as they open a curiosity cabinet of physical mastery that is irreverent, sexy, turbulent, breathtaking and at times laugh out loud funny. There is alwa…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMAt the end of Savages, I had to joke about hoping that no one sees it on a first date because it was too uncomfortable to talk about its content. Walking into 45downstairs, a sea of pa…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:33AMSunday, August 18, 2013
F Scott Fitzgerald and Earnest Hemingway met in Paris in the 1920s and hung with the, newly-named, lost generation gang of artists that so many artists wish they could have hung out with (ev…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:46AMFriday, August 16, 2013
So that young hipster Simon Stone has gone and had his wicked way with another work of theatrical literary genius. Hooray! If you’re reading all the hoo ha about Adaptors V Playwrights…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:21AMWednesday, August 14, 2013
Barely a week goes by without a cultural festival in Victoria, but things were different in the 1970s when the tiny Gippsland town of Korumburra began a festival to celebrate the three-metre…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMI fell in deep fuzzy love with the Apocalypse Bear and Lally Katz’s writing in 2007 when the bear appeared in a short play set in near Kew at fortyfivedownstairs. My love was affirme…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:38AMThursday, August 8, 2013
Alison Whyte’s irresistible performance of The Bloody Chamber is reason enough to see it before it finishes on the weekend. It’s like being tucked into bed and read a fairytale…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:32AMMockingbird Theatre continue to produce theatrically significant plays whose influence continues to be seen and felt in contemporary theatre. And there’s no better way to understand th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:50AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
If resurrection is madness, then Wake up Hate is a descent into a delusion that is peppered with ideas of perspective, mania and observation. This one-man show directed and performed by Paul…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:23PMThursday, August 1, 2013
Since its first production in 1976, there have been endless reviews for Einstein on the Beach, so three writers and artists who were at last night’s opening are going to write persona…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:21AMSunday, July 28, 2013
Fleur Kilpatrick was 17 when she was the co-winner of the State Theatre Company of South Australia’s Young Playwrights Award. She’s since completed a theatre degree at Monash University …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMSaturday, July 27, 2013
In fairness to every actor who will perform White Rabbit, Red Rabbit and to every one who will be in an audience of a production, this is spoiler free. But, even still, please only keep re…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMFriday, July 26, 2013
Just when it looks like there might be a week without an arts festival in Melbourne, along comes the inaugural Container Festival presented by MUST, the Monash University Student Theatre ass…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PM 
