Actor Eryn Jean Norvill’s portrayal of all the characters in The Portrait of Dorian Gray triumphantly illustrates Oscar Wilde’s notion of the self as a form of performance.
While the name of the season - now online - suggests breaking through opera’s glass ceiling, the violent imagery fits the context of ecological disaster, inequality, mental illness, and dystopia.
Director Lee Lewis is at the top of her game in this play about family relations, Australia’s treatment of refugees, and the privledge inherent in the audience.
Playwright Jane Harrison’s The Visitors shows audiences how a group of Indigenous leaders might have debated what to do when the First Fleet landed in 1788 - but where are the women?
The world premiere of Nardi Simpson’s Black Drop Effect takes in the complex histories of Aboriginal responses to commemoration, and makes space for protest, cultural reclamation and negotiation.
A new show by indie performer Mish Grigor, with Aphids Theatre, explores all the exit opportunities that are available to us - and some doors that are better left closed.
A reliance on visual elements to create the world of performance in Japan traces back hundreds of years through kabuki dance-drama. Two new shows keep that tradition alive.
20 years on from Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? In Anthem, the Melbourne public transportation system behaves as a microcosm of larger political tensions and anxieties.
Bryoni Trezise considers questions at the core of Back To Back Theatre’s new work: why are we sitting in this theatre? What do we hope will happen? And who, really, are we?
XXX Neon Sign – a piano work about working in a Brisbane porn shop – is a new work of ‘composed theatre’, where the performer and the performance are inextricably linked.
Avalanche: A Love Story, is a play based on the author’s memoir detailing the anguish of her six unsuccessful attempts at IVF. It depicts doctors who prey upon an ageing woman’s despair and the stigma attached to ‘failed’ mothers.