With her stereotype-smashing strip, Emma Maye Gibson toys with sexual objectification tropes – then yanks the rug out In the back row of Sydney’s Griffin theatre, Betty Grumble’s mothe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMRoslyn Packer theatre, SydneyTackling a play driven by its protagonist’s unreasonable expectations, Sydney Theatre Company’s season-ending blockbuster doesn’t quite deliver on the hype…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMBelvoir Street theatre, Sydney The New York playwright lightens the weight of gender theory, places it in a family home, and then detonates it. Shrapnel flies everywhereRadical ideas should …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMSydney Dance Company collaborated with a naturist society for a world-first all-nude event. But be careful where your eyes fall“Here?” I ask. “We undress here?” The man beside me alr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMBelvoir Theatre, SydneyLeah Purcell’s radical reimagining of Henry Lawson’s short story is a tense, captivating, action-packed Australian western A selection of short stories by Henry La…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33PMOnce targeted by Andrew Bolt and Breitbart, David Finnigan’s play has found new life in a concept albumAt midday on 31 August, a silent and subversive music event happened inside Parliamen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:08AMAdelaide Festival Centre and Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide festivalCanadian post-rockers bring their massive drums and sad, soaring crescendos to two Adelaide shows, including a dance piece th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43AMRoslyn Packer Theatre, SydneyTackling a play driven by its protagonist’s unreasonable expectations, Sydney Theatre Company’s season-ending blockbuster doesn’t quite deliver on the hype…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32PMRoslyn Packer Theatre, SydneyA roll call of big name artists come together for this Sydney Dance Company production, but are let down by a lack of thematic heft and poor stagingAlthough danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07PMDressing up is ‘culturally deep within us’, says director Stephen Elliott, whose film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is being thrown a fabulous 21st in the form of a th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24PMIn the historic clan-gathering place, people of all nations enjoy the bunggul sunset dances, clan stories, bark painting and deep soul musicHeld on an escarpment in north-east Arnhem Land, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSydney Opera HouseBangarra’s new double bill offsets the joyfulness of Murray Island-inspired I.B.I.S., with the darkness and disempowerment of SheoakBangarra dance theatre’s 29th produc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54PMOne of only eight companies to perform William’s Forsythe’s masterpiece, Sydney Dance Company makes Quintett sing, while Rafael Bonachela’s latest is an exercise in controlled chaos Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35AMSydney festival 2015Kate Champion and Kelli Jean Drinkwater’s dance work is a confrontational, yet highly playful piece, about the beauty and reality of living in a large body• ‘This i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09PMSydney festival 2015The subject matter is difficult by default, but Tamara Saulwick’s show still manages to be uplifting, punctuated beautifully by Paddy Mann’s guitar Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52PMMany small live music venues find themselves struggling. But as one artist-run initiative shows, grassroots urban arts can thriveKate Hennessy
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