In this ode to youthful obsession and personal myth-making, two things abound: music and death. Bridget Mackay is a music obsessive with dreams of rock stardom that have taken her from Canberra to London and New York before landing in Melbourne. Georgie McAuley, meanwhile, is fixated on understanding death – the unsexy biology of decomposition […]

Renowned and critically acclaimed comedian Stephen K. Amos returns to Melbourne with his new stand-up show Welcome to My World. Amos entertains with recent stories and observations, such an encounter with a snooty steward on a flight, being passive aggressive online, Australia’s recent libspill, and his run-ins with indifference towards his Nigerian race. Amos explains […]

Destroy Solzhenitsyn, a new play by Malaysian-Australian playwright John Joofor Lee, premiered at the Gasworks Theatre in South Melbourne for the 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival. It’s an insightful piece of theatre from Nice Productions. This play is spans the lifetime of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author and political dissident, from the origins of his opposition to […]

Gruesome Playground Injuries, the 2008 play by American playwright Rajiv Josef, makes its Melbourne debut at this years’ Fringe Festival. It’s the ambitious first project from NewCharacter Productions (actors Katarina Viva Schøller and Nicholas Jaquinot), directed by David Ward. The piece follows the lives of Kayleen and Doug over the span of thirty years. Their first meeting, […]

Quippings  is an eight-strong performance group run for, and by, people with disability. They have been fronting (and confronting) audiences for four years now, and Disability Unleashed, their new show for this year’s Fringe Festival, promises more of the surprising, touching, sexy, and hilarious acts the group is now infamous for. Co-producer Jax Jacki Brown […]