Sleep. It’s the easiest thing to do. You just… close your eyes. But for so many of us, sleep seems out of our grasp. We want it, but we don’t know how to get it. Fleur Kilpatrick cannot sleep. In her creation Insomnia Cat Came To Stay the audience is invited into the manic and […]
Continue ReadingRoom 328
Truth be told, I’ve always been extremely uncomfortable around contemporary art, and five minutes into Room 328 I’m itching to leave. This is not a bad thing. That is what the contemporary is supposed to do. Throw you into the deep end when you don’t know how to swim. Turn off all the lights. Leave […]
Continue ReadingFreefall
What are you afraid of? Whizzing through the air, or maybe having someone stand on your head? Running with scissors or juggling eggs? For the members of circus company Gravity and Other Myths, these are far from the scariest of prospects. Or are they? The constant worries that plague life and circus art are flirted […]
Continue ReadingHow Many Politicians Does It Take To Screw In A Lightbulb?
A nervous comedian quietly walked onto the stage in a converted Strip Club on top of the Portland Hotel. A few mismatched chairs were bunched together- not exactly the classiest setting for a stand up show. But nevertheless, before long, I’d forgotten all about the location as Matt Grantham started his show. It became obvious […]
Continue ReadingAn Oracles’ Song Still Resonates
Ulrike Meinhof Sings is an impressive poetic monologue, infused with evocative and visceral language, personification and imagery. One is confronted with a story of bank robberies, shootouts, bombings, bloodshed, death, politics and a female German terrorist’s aspirations to disrupt the class systems and create an impetus for revolt. She is a member of The Red […]
Continue ReadingMatt and Ted Make Stuff Up Again
Both the crude stick figures of the promotional image and unashamedly explicit title of Matt and Ted Make Stuff Up Again (This Time With Paul As Well) suggest, before we’ve even walked in the door, that this show makes no pretense to be anything other than off-the-wall improvised absurdity. The charisma of our performers Matt […]
Continue ReadingJoel Creasey’s Late Show
Joel Creasey’s Late Show is a ninety-minute comedy extravaganza set amongst the comfy mismatched couches in the “rape dungeon” of Melbourne’s Soft Belly Bar. While it’s a guaranteed hit for most, the easily offended might be better off giving it a miss. Beginning with a reminder that “it’s not racist if you laugh,” acting MC […]
Continue ReadingDining with Cordyceps
Jodie Goldring’s installation ‘Dining with Cordyceps’ lures us into a trance with the cordycep’s eerie beauty before revealing the predatory nature of the fungi. Goldring collaborates with basketmakers Barbara Hawkins and Sue Dilley in this stunning exhibition to highlight her concern with the “insidious changes to our domestic environment and consumption habits over the last […]
Continue ReadingJewels & Bullets
Jewels & Bullets paid homage to Australia’s hidden musical past with a series of gripping performances by 12 special guest vocalists, all of whom were each given the task of reviving some of Australia’s lost classics. Backed by the Bacchus Marsh Band, featuring members of the Boat People and Hot Little Hands, each guest vocalist […]
Continue ReadingAfter All This
After All This, by award winning ensemble Elbow Room (director Marcel Dorney, Angus Grant and Emily Tomlins), is an uncomfortable-in-a-good-way look at contemporary views of the afterlife. The performance is put to us on three stages, which weave their way upwards through the beautiful space that is the Dear Patti Smith building leading to a […]
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