From the moment the curtain first raises through to its final close, QL2 Dance Filling the Space deftly questions the relationship of bodies in space Continue Reading
Review: Filling the Space by QL2 Dance
Canberra Theatre Centre
Prima Facie: What happens when it’s her word against his?
Prima Facie is an award winning new play that explores our Australian legal system and what happens when it’s her word against his Continue Reading
Barbara and the Camp Dogs – A Powerful Piece of Theatre
Barbara has been trying to make it as a musician in Sydney for a long time now. The city is harsh and it’s hard to find the sense of community she craves. She plays gigs with her cousin René and her band the Camp Dogs. She gets into fights. But now her mum is sick and it’s time to head home. And so begins Barbara and the Camp Dogs, part music gig, part road story and all parts electrifying. The performance is raw and intimate, as funny as it is heartbreaking. Themes of family, love, loss, identity and the treatment… Continue Reading
Bell Shakespeare’s The Miser – A Review
The Miser is smart, funny and digestible and well worth a watch. We give it eight Bell Shakespeare’s out of ten, would watch again. Continue Reading
Jakop Ahlbom’s Horror – An Interview with Performer Silke Hundertmark
Staying up all night watching scary movies and gorging yourself on enough junk food to make you vomit is a right of passage for most young people. It certainly was for Jakop Ahlbom , Dutch auteur and lover of the horror genre. In his hugely successful work Horror, Ahlbom brings together his signature mix of theatre, dance, mime and music to create an immersive experience that will leave you terrified. Featuring special effects rarely seen outside of film, the play follows a woman who returns to her childhood home where, in a series of flashbacks, she is haunted by… Continue Reading
Love, Shakespeare and Theatre: An Interview with Ray Chong Nee
Let’s do a little exercise together shall we? Close your eyes, take a deep breath and clear your mind. Now think of a famous couple. Just go with the first thing that pops into your head. Now open your eyes and keep reading. I’m guessing you probably thought of Kim and Kanye. Or Beyonce and Jay Z. Or perhaps, like Leiden’s copy editor Jesse Petrie whom I just made participate in this exercise, you might even have thought of Bert and Ernie. But let’s take it back a little further in history. Back to the beginnings of the… Continue Reading
A Chat with Sarah Morrison – Musicals, ABBA and Mamma Mia
I have said it before and I’ll say it again, I am not a fan of musicals. All that sing-talking makes me want to puke into my favourite Miu Miu cat clutch. And yet, despite my propensity to vomit at the mere hint of a sentence that screams to be spoken rather than sung, I actively go and see a lot of musicals. And if they are more of a play interspersed with the occasional song, I confess to rather enjoying myself. The latest musical to come my way is the West End and Broadway smash Mamma Mia, a… Continue Reading
From Paris with Love – Crazy Horse has Arrived
The Parisian cabaret scene has always been a draw card for travelers making their pilgrimage to the city of light. Along with a selfie in front of the Eiffel Tower, climbing the Arc de Triumph and getting lost in the Louvre, an evening spent at either the Moulin Rouge or Folies Bergere is another of those seemingly mandatory experiences to be ticked off the itinerary. But what of Crazy Horse? This Parisian establishment, having not been immortalised in film by Baz Lurhamn, is perhaps less well known to the traveler seeking a night of revelery in Paris. Founded in… Continue Reading