430 stories by "Anne-Marie Peard"
Simon Morrison-Baldwin pays loving homage to one of French history's most overlooked personalities: diplomat, spy, courtier and decorated serviceman Charles-Geneviève-Louise-Auguste-André-…
Loving Repeating is a musical about writer, poet, novelist and librettist Gertrude Stein (1874"1946). With music by Stephen Flaherty (Seussical, Ragtime) and lyrics by Stein adapted by Frank…
At least Jumpy is a play about 50-something women who have sex. There’s not that much written about the middle-aged years when women discover a new type of social invisibility, a…
Phillip A Mayer's Couples aims to shed light on marriage, commitment and love for four different couples attending a relationship therapy weekend at the fictional Paradise Valley Couples Ret…
Matthew Mitcham, the Australian diver who won an Olympic gold medal in Beijing in 2008 at the age of 20, is charming. You want to wrap him up in a great big hug and take him home to meet you…
Oscar Wilde's farcical tale of societal pomp, mistaken identity and greedy muffin consumption is played out with particular aplomb as Citizen Theatre faithfully brings The Importance of B…
Will Hannagan, the Prince of Pop Song Pastiche, returns to The Butterfly Club with Affluenza with a brand new offering for Midsumma Festival 2015. With a pantomimic "Swoosh!" we are transpor…
Cirque Du Soleil's latest spectacular, TOTEM, traces the story of human life from its primordial roots through to our never-ending quest to reach new heights. It's written and directed by pr…
Agent Cleave is a very sexy glam-punk-pirate/bondage-slave/film-noir-private-dick/femme-fatale/mermaid/Spanish-Jesus in Show Stopper, returned to Melbourne for a limited run at Howler, as pa…
Bagabus Inc are Hannah Malarski and Jack Richardson. They brought the delightfully dark Bushpig to the Melbourne Fringe in 2013 and are back for Midsumma with The Jacobeans, an equa…
Camille O’Sullivan knows that if she wants to move to Melbourne, she’ll have adoring fans and endless friends eager to see her do anything, meow on the streets with her and invit…
Strictly Ballroom began when NIDA student Baz Luhrmann led a student-devised piece in 1984. This production went on to play at the Czechoslovakian World Youth Drama Festival in 1986 and, …
Softly pouting while walking into breezes started as a MUST (Monash Uni Student Theatre) show that was so popular that it needed to be seen by more people and found its way to La Mama for…
I saw Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree at the 2008 Melbourne Festival. It assured me that I’d see anything he created and I Malvolio has confirmed my commitment. Crouch is fr…
I wish that I could tell you that I loved Rob Marshall's big screen adaptation of my favourite Stephen Sondheim show. I wish I could tell you that Marshall found a way to adapt this large en…
Opera Australia’s Don Pasquale is alive and joyous. Without dismissing a note of Gaetamo Donizetti’s opera, everyone on the stage and in the pit finds that little bit…
Last week, Melbourne’s two mainstage companies opened shows by Melbourne writers. Both directed by Melbourne directors and featured Melbourne performers and creators. Both were also se…
As Pennsylvania Avenue opened at the MTC, I know I wasn’t alone as I wondered why. But they’ve just announced extra performances, so I think we know the answer. Meanwhil…
I wasn’t in Melbourne when the Keene/Taylor project was the darling of this city’s independent theatre scene (1997"2002), so it’s a joy to see Mary Lou Jelbart’s f…
I’m still having trouble believing that 1994’s Passion is a Sondheim"Lapine creation, let alone that it won a small pile of Tony Awards. As it’s so rarely performe…
“If you liked that show, I’m going to push you under a tram.” It could only be said in Melbourne, at an arts festival. It was said to me at the end of When the mountain …
Melbourne had the first look at Matthew Lee Robinson’s musical Happy People on the weekend. Its first workshop performance was in Melbourne in 2010 and since then Robinson, a WAP…
Kate Fryer is a co-founder of independent acrobatic aerial theatre company Dislocate. Their Melbourne Festival show, If These Walls Could Talk, is another world premiere for the …
The experience of watching Circa continues to leave me a babbling mess of words that don’t come near to describing how they make me feel. Opus, which was co-comissioned by the Melbourn…
Roslyn Oades new work, Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday is already a must-see see of this festival. Developed by Malthouse and the Melbourne Festival, it’s based on intervi…
