Sunday, February 5, 2017
There are two things that will survive the apocalypse: cockroaches and Cirque du Soleil. Such is its enduring legacy and its prevalence as a flagship for all things circus. The Grand Chapite…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:18PMTuesday, November 29, 2016
Hotel Now is quite a daring ensemble. Since 2013 the company has been making political performance that can only really be given the appellation of “wild.” They dance along the boundarie…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:52PMFluorophone is a configuration of light and sound. It is a marrying of percussion and unusual, non-traditional mediums. Strictly speaking, Fluorophone involves a percussion ensemble (Speak P…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:52AMMonday, November 28, 2016
Witness me performing acrobatics (back and forth, back and forth) as I try to come to terms with Animal created by Susie Dee, Kate Sherman and Nicci Wilks. Animal began its development six y…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:37PMSunday, November 20, 2016
There’s something exquisite about entering the Trades Hall to see LadyCake. It’s the slight vertigo that derives from crossing the threshold of time: walking up that darkly lit stairwell…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:53PMMonday, November 23, 2015
There’s an extraordinary depth to Will Eno’s Middletown, from the work’s ability to transcend the mundane aspects of everyday life and reach the lofty heights of our galaxy to its disa…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:16AMFriday, November 20, 2015
Positioned somewhere between the existential philosophy of Samuel Beckett and the comedic tropes of Monty Python, Give Me Your Love is an uncanny exploration of post traumatic stress disorde…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:44AMThursday, November 12, 2015
Sometimes there is a work that is so refreshingly provoking that is leaves you in a state of euphoria. This is precisely what happened with Nicola Gunn/SANS HOTEL’s latest work, Piece for …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:08PMSunday, September 27, 2015
Sad Digger Mad Mary is a hilarious piece that treads the fine line between comedy and tragedy. Performed by superstar Tom Halls, it has you laughing one minute and seriously re-thinking your…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:12AMTuesday, September 15, 2015
Tender Napalm, written by Philip Ridley, is a surreal story about a couple trapped in a fictional cosmos that they themselves have created. It’s a twisted battle of the sexes, played out t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:38PMThursday, August 27, 2015
Choreographed by Jo Lloyd, Confusion for Three highlights the varying degrees of confusion, misinterpretation and delusions that arise from the act of communication. The North Melbourne Town…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:44PMTuesday, August 25, 2015
Ahilan Ratnamohan’s SDS1 blurs the boundary between dance and physical theatre by incorporating his skills as a professional footballer. The first thing that we notice as we are ushered in…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:17AMFriday, August 14, 2015
Written and performed by James McCaughey, Conversations with the Gods about their Deaths & Other Matters (Part I) is a series of stylish (and somewhat bizarre) monologues based around ou…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:18PMWednesday, June 3, 2015
The Exonerated examines the journey of five individuals wrongly sentenced to death in the USA. Walking into the freezing Loft space at Chapel off Chapel, we encounter a dimly lit set clutter…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:11PMThursday, February 12, 2015
Written by the agitprop and comedic mastermind Dario Fo, Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas is Hoy Polloy and Terra Incognita’s re-telling of the Christopher Columbus voyage. Th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:32PMThursday, February 5, 2015
Presented by MKA in Melba Spiegeltent, Being Dead (Don Quixote) is an exploration of being a woman and what it is to forge your own identity in a masculine world. The set is relatively bare …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:16PMFriday, January 23, 2015
The Fastest Clock in the Universe, by UK writer (and perfomer, painter, photographer and director) Philip Ridley, is an exploration of beauty and the cost that comes from obsessive narcissis…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:50PMSunday, October 19, 2014
Written by Australian playwright Lachlan Philpott, The Trouble with Harry is a story about Harry Crawford, who was made famous after it was discovered that he was born female. It’s set wit…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:06PMThursday, October 9, 2014
Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve Fucked sums up the work in its entirety. The work presents various scenes with different animals, in which Bobby (Heath Ivey-Law) holds awkward post…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:28PMWednesday, October 8, 2014
The Dream is Bell Shakespeare’s reworking (or should one say reawakening) of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Set in what looks like the interior of a decomposed ship, the work…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMFriday, October 3, 2014
Post-Post is a surreal comedy. A mixture of slapstick gags (sometimes cringe-worthy), puns and boundless energy from creators-performers Harley Hefford and Carly Milroy. We’re sitting in a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00AMSaturday, September 27, 2014
Performed at The Substation, one of Melbourne’s most exciting theatre venues right now, Just Us is an interactive and immersive promenade work that explores Australia’s justice system. I…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:31PMPanic is a dramatisation of a short story written by Japanese novelist Kōbō Abe. It is a powerful, highly physical work that fuses strong action with a great text and narrative. The story …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:40AMTuesday, August 12, 2014
Quills is a fleshy tour de force about art, morality and sex. Written by Doug Wright, Quills follows the tale of the pornographer/moralist/artist Marquis de Sade and his final years in Chare…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:34PMFriday, July 11, 2014
In the intimate space at The Butterfly Club, Nailed it! is cabaret about life, love, love lost and when you really aren’t “nailing it.” With lyrics by Andrew Strano and music by Loclan…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:40AMSunday, July 6, 2014
Mein Kampf, written by Hungarian playwright George Tabori in 1987, examines a moment in history, namely, the existential calm before the onslaught of the Nazi regime – the calm before the …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:17AMFriday, July 4, 2014
David Mamet’s American Buffalo was one of his first works written in 1975 and opening on Broadway in 1977. It examines the dissatisfaction of existing within a high capitalist society and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:01PMThursday, June 19, 2014
Written by Yve Blake, MKA’s Sugar Sugar delineates the journey of a young woman as she shifts from adolescence into adulthood. This manifests as a downward spiral into a bulimia that …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:00PMWednesday, June 18, 2014
In all its postmodern (or is that post-post?) glory, The Defence is a show about the cultural objectification of women, explicitly framed within a rehearsal room. Written by Chris Dunstan, T…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:59PMWritten by MKA’s Tobias Manderson-Galvin, Thank You, Thank You Love is a collection of five short plays that have a chaotic and brutal energy. The vivid beauty of the language and ima…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:00PMMonday, June 16, 2014
Performed in the enormous space of The Substation in Newport, Swamp Juice is a shadow puppetry show assembled from the refuse and junk of our disposable society. Created by Bunk Puppets and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:18PM 
