A new play tells the story of George Johnston and Charmian Clift’s time on the Greek island of Hydra, which ultimately led to the novel My Brother Jack - but not without sacrifices.
Artist Janet Laurence is ferocious and uncompromising in her work.
Jacquie Manning
One of Australia’s most prominent playwrights has reimagined the infamous encounter between Hollywood icon Mae West and photographer Diane Arbus.
A scene from La Reprise, director Milo Rau’s first production following the publication of his controversial ‘Ghent Manifesto’ on theatre.
Michiel Devijver
Acclaimed dance choreographer Meryl Tankard’s show Two Feet premiered in 1988. Now it returns to the Adelaide Festival, recreated for one of today’s most brilliant dancers.
Dada Masilo’s Giselle follows the ballet’s original story outline but changes it in clever ways.
John Hogg
A new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute uses animation to bring the fantastical opera to life.
Sunset is collaboration between freelance director and choreographer Maxine Doyle and Western Australia’s STRUT Dance, in association with Tura New Music.
Simon Pynt
Trailblazing US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is known to many as the ‘Notorious RBG’. But the new film On the Basis of Sex is a muted portrayal of her.
Dust is a new show by far-north Queensland company Dancenorth, currently playing at the 2019 Sydney Festival.
Pippa Samaya
Dancenorth’s Dust explores a world on the brink of turning back to dust. Its themes are familiar in contemporary dance, but the show is replete with powerful images.
In his Quarterly Essay, Smee laments the erosion of ‘inner life’ thanks to digital technology.
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Smee insists that the rich and intense visions of artists such as Cézanne or Chekhov are increasingly lost to us.
Anna Breckon and Nat Randall, Rear view 2018 (still),
high definition digital video, multi-channel sound, 85:11 mins
Courtesy of the artists Photo: Andrew Curtis
Through animation, video, light and sound, Theatre is Lying exposes how visual art, performance and theatrical devices can interrogate what is real and what is not.
Leah Ashwood, Jasper Lloyd, and Texas Watterston in The School (2018).
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There is nothing to prepare us for the shock to the senses in the National Gallery of Victoria’s latest exhibition combining the works of M. C. Escher with Japanese design firm nendo.
André Rieu performs in his Sydney Town Hall performance.
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Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne