After much anticipation, the acclaimed new production of Boublil & Schönberg’s legendary Les Misérables, with its glorious new staging and youthful cast has premiered at Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre. Based...

Fresh from a debut season during Melbourne’s Midsumma Festival, Drew Downing’s quasi one-man-show (he has an eminently capable backing trio consisting of double bass, guitar and drums), was invited for a return season as...

It may be tempting to assume that issues surrounding refugees are analogous from country to country. It is, after all, a global problem, brought about by international movements. Flashpoints in one jurisdiction cause wav...

It’s tempting for historians and lazy people to conflate Brecht and agitprop, but it isn’t strictly accurate. A portmanteau of agitation and propaganda, agitprop really finds its apotheosis in the communist theatre of Ch...

As the audience files into the theatre ahead of Mike McLeish’s new show, the lyrical refrain I’m not angry anymore from Concrete Blonde’s song Joey plays discreetly and subversively in the background. But when McLeish wa...

There is nothing more exciting than wandering along the banks of Melbourne’s Yarra River on a brisk June evening as the white Circus Oz Big Top comes into view. We know we are in for rough and tumble ride, and none...

Concentration. Speed. Accuracy. A fighter pilot needs these skills to survive and thrive in the deadly arena of battle, but even these all come to naught without a steely determination to kill. The affect of the kill on ...

Bell Shakespeare’s new production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V – which opened in Canberra on 14 June – interrogates the complexities of war through a unique framing device: its scenes are played out by schoolchildren...