430 stories by "Anne-Marie Peard"
At a very-well-aged 50-something and from the USA (he was a favourite on Letterman), I don’t think there’s anyone more middle class, middle aged, white, blue-eyed and heterono…
Radio Variety Hour is a delightful and witty homage to the classic 1950s radio play. Packed with a wide array of sound-making props (including a cabbage!), the trio of Bok, Marzden and Golds…
Honest, likeable and delightful crass, Rose Callaghan's first solo show explores what it's like to be a single 30-something woman with ADHD. Over the course of the show, Rose jumps between n…
It’s 1890s London and Mary Weather continues to try to balance protecting the city from monsters, missing her sister, and dealing with boyfriend Percy Shelley’s affections "̶…
Don't forget that there's plenty of brilliant comedy for kids at MICF. From Arena Theatre and Claire Bartholomew and Daniel Tobias (who also created the glorious rock duo Die Roten Punkte), …
With different casts for each performance, Cliffhanger showcases some of Melbourne's finest improv talents in the delightful surrounds of the Butterfly Club. At the mercy of the audience and…
Lisa-Skye is a warm and cheerful performer filled with love and laughter. Â This show provides an honest and engaging look into Lisa-Skye's colourful world and is filled with stories abou…
As if improvised comedy wasn't already a high-wire act; increase the level of difficulty by adding in puppets. The Mighty Little Puppet Show is a long-held dream of actor, comedian and Time …
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Without a propelling story line, Anthony Crowley’s Redemption considers the relationship between the priesthood, corruptness and sexual depravity. Set in Melbourne, a young Catho…
Musical theatre is so often about spectacle, it's always a pleasure to see a small musical that focuses on people and their troubles. Based on a short story, The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris …
"Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time." – Joan Lindsey, Picnic at Hanging Rock Five women appear on stage, dressed in the uniforms of private school girls we might enco…
Tuesday's audience at Melbourne’s Recital Centre were noisy, but with mumblings of “wonderful” and interjections of “brava”, there’s nothing to complai…
Duncan Macmillan's 2011 Lungs opens with a young woman"man couple in Ikea talking about having a baby, and a feeling of safe, well-made-play-for-those-who-live in Windsor/Yarraville/Northcot…
Cole Porter's life was, if you'll excuse the gross understatement, interesting. It feels a little unfair to try to cram it into a one-hour show, especially taking breaks to include some of h…
Fiddler on the Roof is one of "those shows". It's frequently mentioned as people's favourite musical, and one they were brought up on. For those people, this is a fine, if workmanlike, produ…
The most moving part of Georgy Girl "The Seekers musical is a film of the audience watching The Seekers at Melbourne's Myer Music Bowl in 1967. There were about 200 000 people, around a tent…
Tennessee Mynott-Rudland spent her second weekend at the Big West Festival. 7412 Kilometres of Relations Felix Ching Ching Ho & Big West Festival 28 November 2015 VU at Metro West Felix …
If you just went to arts festivals in Melbourne, you'd still miss far too much. 2015 is the tenth Big West Festival. This biennial multi-artform, multicultural festival runs for nine days in…
If there's been one trend in the last decade or so of musical theatre, it's metatheatrical references. That's where a show is very consciously a show. It can be seen in the self-referential …
Opera Australia’s absolutely splendid The Marriage of Figaro is in Melbourne until the end of November. Premiering in 1786, Mozart’s comic opera about infidelity and forgiv…
Barbra Streisand has a replica of a shopping mall in the basement of her super mansion in Malibu. She uses it to keep her collection of dolls, clothes and pretty stuff. This is true. I didn'…
Victorian Opera commissioned four young Australian composers to write Seven Deadly Sins, with a sin for each of seven Australian cities. They were inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s assignin…
It's been 48 hours since my last Melbourne Festival show… Although Melbourne's festival lovers are looking forward to being in bed by midnight, food made at home and a couple of days that …
Kate Mulvany's gorgeous adaption of Kit Williams’s picture book Masquerade celebrates why picture books and stories are so important to children and why whenever a child asks yo…
