Circus Oz: Aurora
Circus Oz has had a long history of upholding the finest elements of traditional circus, and this year, guest director Kate Fryer, has delivered a sprightly new show that features a stunning mix of the old and new, allow...
Category: Performance
Melbourne Fringe: Black Water
Composed by Jeremy Beck from the novella by Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water is a short opera telling the tragic story of the end of Mary Jo Kopechne’s life. On the night of July 18, 1969, Kopechne was a passenger in a car...
Melbourne Fringe: The Voices of Joan of Arc
Misogyny has been present in culture for thousands of year, working still today implicitly and explicitly on so much of our lives. There are the obvious statistics where it makes itself known: In Australia, one woman a w...
Melbourne Fringe: Orpheus
Owing to Greek myth, we might expect some familiarity with the story of Orpheus. Still, The Flanagan Collective and Gobbledygook Theatre gave us some surprises in this modern take. The work comes to Melbourne from Englan...
Melbourne Fringe: Welcome to Twin Peaks
We’re in the Toff in Town and there’s a collision of Twin Peaks imagery and geography. Beautiful Dark’s show is titled Welcome to Twin Peaks and so much of it is present throughout: Waitresses dressed from the Double R D...
World’s best re-imagine opera for a unique festival in Victoria&...
Hosted in Victoria’s charming wine region this October, the Yarra Valley Opera Festival brings together acclaimed directors, costume designers and composers, forging new collaborations across three classic and re-i...
Melbourne Fringe: Nevernatal
Written and directed by Freya Magee, Nevernatal is a charming comedy that tests the strength of friendship when peoples’ lives are on the cusp of changing forever. People bring all sorts of things to a baby shower,...
Melbourne Fringe: Monster / Woman
It’s one thing to be paralysed by choice during a Fringe Festival, but rather more inconvenient to be turned to stone, as were the men who met the snake-haired Gorgon Medusa in myths. In Monster / Woman, Sabrina D’...