430 stories by "Anne-Marie Peard"
I'd not heard of the Ward Theatre Company, but they sent me a snail mail invitation that had black butterflies on it, so I had to see them. If sending a cute invite was all it took me to see…
It was back-to-back Verdi for me this week. Opera Australia are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's birth by performing six of his 30 operas this year. Â Melbourne gets t…
Who wouldn't want to watch a sitcom about three magicians who live together and practice law? Somehow Alex, Luke and Vyom's show gets cancelled, but as luck would have it, the morning TV hos…
Song is described as theatre without actors and songs without singers. From Melbourne's Ranters theatre, it's an unexpected project from a company known for their exquisite writing and ac…
Hot Box.  Karin's got one. I've got one. So do you. It's that slightly awkward place where we feel hot enough to blend in with the crowd. The first great thing about Hot Box is that…
Sondheim fans don't need anyone to convince them to see a production of Assassins, and they are selling out fortyfivedownstairs every night to see new a company, Watch This, take aim a…
Slutmonster and Friends is a bit like Sesame Street doing porn with Annie Sprinkle, but so divinely filthy and wrong that it makes Avenue Q look like Disney on Ice and leaves …
Action to the Word's production of A Clockwork Orange has divided audiences and it's already being declared genius or drivell. I thought it was horrorshow. If you have no connection to…
Lessons With Luis: Why didn't someone tell me about these guys when they were at the Fringe last year? Never has awkward been so brilliant, and I dare any show to have me grinning so inanely…
My unexpected hit of MICF (so far) is Nicholas J Johnson's Today Tonight, Tomorrow the World. It's about his experience of being invited to appear on channel 7's 6.30 pm muckhole Today…
I'm not Josh Thomas's demographic; he's one of those performers who I knew about and have seen bits of, but wasn't compelled to spend an hour with. This changed because I loved Please Lik…
I love Ruby Wax. I love her for every Ruby Wax Meets interview, because she script edited Absolutely Fabulous (great writers need great script editors " and I love script editing…
MKA have to have a dud; it's natural that their streak of you-remind-me-why-I-love-theatre shows ends eventually, but it isn't with Group Show. Now in their third year, this company " who st…
Conversation Piece is the only show in the Dance Massive festival that I've managed to see and it left me wanting to talk and rave and see it again. Lucy Guerin's work makes me understand co…
The instant Vika Bull sashayed onto the stage for the opening of At Last:The Etta James Story, she became Etta James. She walked the walk, talked the talk and immortalised Willie Dixon's "I …
Silent was another very short-run show that was gone too quickly. But Melbourne's loss is Perth's gain, as it's at the Perth Fringe World festival from 13 to 23 February. Ireland's Fisham…
It may be impossible to not get caught up in the cast's infectious enthusiasm for Hair. From the lollies and condoms that come with the program to the hippy greetings at the door, it's a …
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the car, is terrific, and deserves her curtain call. She's awesome and cost over a million dollars to make, but all that spit, polish and Turtle Wax can't make her s…
The Other Place opens the MTC's 2013 season and is sure to be a subscriber favourite. Twitter told me there were people in tears at last night's opening and I'm believing Twitter, even if th…
Margie Fischer shares a brilliant response to cope with unwelcome charity phone calls: "They're all dead". But in her case, it's true. When her mother died, Margie was the last member of her…
Red Stitch's first show for 2013 is 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog. It explores the relationship between a grandson who can't face his life and a grandmother who struggles to remember hers and sta…
Andy Warhol's 15 Minutes of Fame opens at La Mama on 30 January. It's about Warhol in the 1960s, his struggle for success and his attempted assassination by Valerie Solanas in 1968. Actor Jo…
Theatre Works final show for Midsumma is Margie Fischer's most recent work, The Dead Ones, and she has a chat to Anne-Marie Peard. Margie is a writer and performer who founded Feast, Adel…
Actor Matthew Hyde said that some of the best acting advice he's had is: "Grab it by the balls darling and act the shit out of it" " and he sure does so in Here Lies Henry, the second sho…
Vieux Carré is one of Tennesse Williams lesser-known plays. It opened on Broadway on 30 April 1977, closed on 15 May and didn't add to the playwright's collection of Pulitzer Prizes for …
