While Western Society’s approaches of sexuality seem exceedingly liberal in juxtaposition with 17th Century attitudes, incest remains taboo. Pity, Ellandar Productions’ re-working of English playwright John Ford’s Pity She’s a Whore, sets the action in a secular world where reason and morality are guided by modern psychology, philosophy and science. Opening last Thursday in Fringe […]

Western Devil is a show with earnest good intentions, but is served alongside an unfortunate superiority complex. A little like our colonising forefathers, Colin Ebsworth’s ideas have a tendency to come across as aggressive. Less like our colonising forefathers, he has the potential to develop into a popular Australian comedian. He inspects Western culture through […]

It has become something of a fashion to refer to artists who are not poets as being poets of their respective mediums. Often this is an ill-informed description simply comes from the artist in question producing non-narrative work. Maya Deren is not of this category, she is a mid-twentieth century filmmaker who utilised the medium […]

Before seeing Mise En Abyme I did a little background research and noticed that Chicks on Speed had performed at top galleries around the world including MoMA, Centre Pompidou and the Thyssen-Bornesmizsa Musuem of Art. After seeing their show, I must say that I am very surprised by this. The performance began with Melissa Logan […]

There is no muckin’ around with Movin’ Melvin Brown. His workshop, Tap Into Health, starts with a brief tap performance by the man himself and before you can think ‘That looks too hard, I’m leaving’, he has you tapping away, working up a sweat, clickity click. Melvin starts off simple with The Walk and soon […]