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Now in its 24th year, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s annual celebration of all things cabaret sparkles and shines.
Robert Menzies is outstanding as a physically feeble yet emotionally volatile Lear.
Anchuli Felicia King’s play American Signs at the Sydney Theatre Company thrusts us into the world of a campus hire at management consultancy ‘The Firm’.
The work highlights that there may be no singular perspective on what is right and wrong in this rather complex and nuanced world.
If you’re in need of a queerly spiritual intervention, or more simply looking for a show that will stay with you, I urge you to experience Homo Pentecostus at Malthouse.
Symphonie of the Bicycle is a tribute to the value of laughter and comedy, and the power of theatre in these ruthless times.
Belvoir’s new play Nayika: A Dancing Girl blends music, dance and drama using a neo-classical version of Bharatanatyam dance.
Set in 1990s suburban Australia, The Exact Dimensions of Hell is a theatrical exploration that unflinchingly examines themes of teenage girls, desire and power.
The Sydney Theatre Company’s captivating revival of the 1975 play, co-produced with Dublin’s Gate Theatre, manages to balance the loathing and humour of Thomas Bernhard’s writing.
Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World at the Sydney Theatre Company is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what it is to be good; what it is to live a good life.
Eamon Flack’s production captures well – and with a lovely, light touch – the sense of fleeting memories that are, nevertheless, still available to us.
Playwright Nathan Maynard uses the story of Adam Goodes to explore race in a local footy club.
Across the program, I was struck by how it was often more in the act of putting on and performing the work, rather than their spoken content, that expressed political responses to our times.
While there is much to praise in The Lehman Trilogy, now playing in Sydney, the impression I was left with was one of a missed opportunity.
Louis Nowra is one of the most significant Australian playwrights of the past 40 years. Griffith Theatre Company is staging a trilogy of his work.
In Black Swan State Theatre Company’s new production The Pool, playwright Steve Rodgers’ love of swimming is the play’s genesis
Van Badham’s A Fool in Love at the Sydney Theatre Company lampoons the modern Sydney vibe: a city obsessed with wealth, status and, of course, love.
Is That You, Ruthie? is a harrowing account of a mother and daughter’s attempt to repair their fractured relationship.
This production by Western Australian interdisciplinary theatre makers Too Close to the Sun is an experiential encounter with the liminal space between life and death.
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, UNSW Sydney
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Associate professor, Macquarie University
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Humanities Researcher, Flinders University
