Experiencing Steppe at 707 Operations, it struck me that, for the people of Poland during the Second World War, there was no least worst option. The Nazis had come from the west, and then th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:01PMAn exciting new initiative between Malthouse Theatre and Monash University, Welcome to Nowhere gives us five brand new plays written by some of Australia’s most fascinating playwrights…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:49PMBridget is obsessed with rock bands. Georgie is obsessed with death. Together we indulge their obsessions, because we understand them both and the moments and places they connect. Performed …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:01AMAlice Tovey: Malice is one of the highlights of the Fringe Festival so far. Is Malice really about malice or is it just a pun on Alice’s name? Are carefully-aimed criticisms of society alo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:30AMJessica McKerlie doesn’t like labels. She doesn’t like them when society gives them to us. She doesn’t like it when we give it to themselves. She doesn’t even like the word labels. &…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:20AMHART is beautiful, heartbreaking and liberating storytelling. With old checkerboard lino, faded damask wallpaper and a wooden table, the tiny stage in the Fringe hub Parlour Room look…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:03AMVampire Lesbians of Sodom is a very stupid play, and this is a fittingly stupid production of it. Charles Busch’s classic drag satire of Hollywood leading-lady tropes looks none of its 30 …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:46AMIn #DearDiary, Andi Snelling walks a fine line – and she knows it – between nostalgia and indulgence, reading extracts from the diaries she has kept most of her life. One actor shows can…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:29AMMelbourne’s Emily Taylor worked with primary school students to create the characters, opinions and ideas for Backwards. In her show about understanding life backwards and living it f…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:15AMMKA has a strong reputation for hard-hitting political theatre, but their latest – Bounty – is more miss than hit. Eric Gardiner, writer and sound designer, targets ex-Queensland Premier…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:50PMActor April Albert has been working with the life of Hildegard Knef for several years. And while the story of a post-war German singer might suggest, even insist, on being cabaret – this a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:30PMI don’t know how gen-Y Melbourne chicks Dash & D’Bree, didn’t win Australia’s Got Talent. Clearly Australia isn’t ready for their amazingness, but theyR…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:50PMSeth Drury knows how it goes. Or at least he thinks he does. See, it doesn’t quite go as he’d been told. is Seth’s art therapy project, after taking romantic cues from Disney Princes �…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:22AMMelbourne Fringe has only just kicked off and already I think I have a new favourite cabaret artist. Flanked by some very muscly dancers in some very big hats, Cougar Morrison is a vision of…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:19AMDance of the Bee is an interspecies musical collaboration performed by three pianists, the vocalists of the Astra Choir and a live swarm of bees. The bees will be inside a transparent sculpt…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:56PMA Drone Opera is a multimedia performance featuring drones and their pilots, opera singers, a laser light design and moving images. With custom drones – unmanned aerial vehicles (UVAs) –…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMDetroit never says it’s about Detroit. It’s about suburbs where communities are falling apart and the hope of the hard-work way to an easy happy-ever-after is disintegrating in …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:26AMFollowing seasons in Adelaide and Canberra, Geordie Brookman’s production of Harold Pinter’s 1978 play Betrayal has opened at the MTC. Inspired by the writer’s own relationships, it’…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:24AMIn a desolate concrete yard where the only hint of humanity is a prefab building on stilts, a naked young body is dumped on the ground. Malthouse Theatre’s Antigone starts with the C…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:59AMMusician Kate McIntosh was born in New Zealand and lives in Brussels. Her new work, All Ears, runs at Arts House in North Melbourne from 3 to 6 September. Her live music is described as an �…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:27PMSeparately and together, Nicola Gunn and David Woods makes a rare type of theatre that genuinely challenges ideas and opinions. In A Social Service at Malthouse Theatre, they find a line b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:35PMConfusion For Three is Melbourne-based dance artist Jo Lloyd’s new work that runs at Arts House in North Melbourne 26 to 30 August. Since graduating from VCA, Lloyd has presented work at t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:51PMWhen a show is cobbled together from songs by a particular band or composer (such as We Will Rock You and Tomfoolery, which feature the songs of Queen and Tom Lehrer respectively), the audie…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMThe Bleeding Tree won Angus Cereni the 2014 Griffin Award for New Australian Playwriting and its premiere production is running at Griffin’s Stables Theatre in Sydney. This is theatre…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMBeyond expectation and presented free of charge, an impressive display of music and performance by the Monash Academy Orchestra treated the audience at the Monash University’s Robert B…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:53AMAhilan Ratnamohan is a soccer player and a theatre maker who creates physical performance inspired by by sport, film language and unorthadox foms. In SDS1, opening at Arts House on 19 Aug…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:27PMThe 2014 Melbourne Green Room Award–winning production of Master Class by Terrance McNally opens in Sydney at the Hayes Theatre on August 11, before returning to Melbourne’s fortyfivedow…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMThe third MUST (Monash University Student Theatre) Container Festival runs at the Monash Clayton campus from 31 July to 15 August. Last year’s festival had over 350 performances and ev…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:38PMAriel Dorfman wrote Death and the Maiden in 1990 on his return to Chile, after 17 years in exile, in the aftermath of Pinochet’s military dictatorship. The 1993 MTC production of i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:26AMSweeney Todd, Sondheim’s infamous musical thriller, is brought to visceral reality at Arts Centre Melbourne, completing a highly successful trilogy of Sondheim productions by Victorian Ope…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMThe novella L’Amante Anglaise by Marguerite Duras was first published in 1967 and Duras adapted it for stage in 1968. The stage version is two interviews about a murder that was disc…
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